Russel, Minor nit. RHEL7/Centos7 has python 2.7.5 so they haven't fixed themselves at 2.6
-Bill On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 21:28 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > > Question, > > > > what's going on on python3-port at all. Is it still active? > > On https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/branch/python3-port last entry is > April > > 2014. > > No and yes. > > > I like scons and I like python3. I'm not sure, if people really need both > > versions forever. > > Sadly Guido extended Python 2.7 EOL from 2017 to 2020, which is an > admission it will never actually go away :-( > > On a more serious note, there are some applications, such as Mercurial, > which have indicated they may never to move to Python 3 as they cannot > deal with the change from ASCII to Unicode for strings. > > > I installed python2.7 just for scons, and many people are moving forward > to > > use python3 only. > > Some people do not have that luxury. Although Canonical have taken > Ubuntu to Python 3, Red Hat are still shipping Python 2.6 as their > up-to-date version of Python. > > I am a Python 3 only person and only have Python 2 for Mercurial and > SCons. If I had my way Python 2 would be eradicated two years ago! > > > Why not put python2.7 in stable branch for maintenance only, and just > work > > on python3 in trunk. > > Pragmatically, the right place to be is Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 > compliance in a single code base. This is fairly straightforward > compared to all other solutions, provided we can get the person power > harnessed – not entirely straightforward in a project with only > volunteer labour. > > It's a pity having said Python 2.7 is the floor version, we keep > supporting 2.6. I understand why sort of, but it doesn't stop me > complaining :-) > > -- > Russel. > > ============================================================================= > Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: > sip:[email protected] > 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] > London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder > > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev >
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