Anatoly, On non-windows platforms the current recommendation is download the .tgz, unpack, python setup.py it.
That is certainly more complicated than: pip install scons. -Bill On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:43 AM, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Bill Deegan <b...@baddogconsulting.com> > wrote: > >> Jason, >> >> I'm in agreement. >> I think it would be great if the primary way for users to install SCons >> was via pip (and virtualenv if they like, which I do). >> > > This is a can of worms IMO. SCons is not tool for Python programmers, so > if you do that, you will require people to learn about Python packaging, > which is an unnecessary hell. If the tools is needed by Python programmers, > then plz. state how exactly. > > Put the real world need first - what are you trying to achieve with that, > excluding the "consistency with Python world"? > > The primary function and the way of using SCons for me (and my vision for > everybody else) is to be a build tool that can be put into source > repository, so that you can directly build after checkout without messing > with "apt-get/yum/pip install ..." and friends. > > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > Scons-dev@scons.org > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev > >
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