Hi,
On environments where  there is no internet access (banks, army, ...), or if 
scons needs to be internally patched before being installed, the current way is 
much easier than using pip, I guess. 

--
Alexandre

> Le 2 avr. 2015 à 22:33, Bill Deegan <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> 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 <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Bill Deegan <[email protected]> 
>>> 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.
>> 
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