On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Bill Deegan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tim, > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Tim Jenness <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Sep 9, 2015, at 10:49 , Bill Deegan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> SCons supports >=2.7 <3.0 >> >> As far as I know, the idea was to not break 2.6 if it was reasonable not >> to, but no guarantee. >> Clearly starting work on 2.7 & 3.0 compatible source code would mean 2.6 >> would be dropped entirely. >> >> >> The scons release notes are very specific: >> >> >> This will be the last release to support Python versions earlier than >> 2.7, as we begin to move toward supporting Python 3. >> >> Which reads to me that 2.6 is being dropped and python 3 is to be >> supported. >> > > This doesn't conflict with what I wrote in any way. > > A guarantee that it will work with 2.6 has been removed. As I said above, > if a change breaks 2.6 (in the recent past) and there was an equivalently > good way to code it which didn't break 2.6, we'd try to use that. That > said, I don't think this came up very often. > And as I said above that, shall we say, suggestion is no longer in effect. > > At some point (undefined as in no hard commitment on the date of a release > which will work with 3.x) in the future 3.x will be supported. > > We've got a fairly big change in default (slots), which should released > sometime in the near future. > Then we've got another larger functional patch (improved cross language > scanners, if it's ready). > I take this as evidence that no ones watches the BitBucket pull requests. It's ready to be announced and looked at. > Also a fix for some issues with versioned shared librareis, and 3.x work > should happen thereafter. > After that I expect we'll start moving the code to 3.x and 2.7.x compat. > > Anyone want to volunteer some buildslaves for 3.x? > > -Bill > > > > > >> >> — >> Tim Jenness >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Scons-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev > >
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