On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 13:23 -0700, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > > Hi All-- > > The trouble with requiring a minimum of 2.7.x on all platforms is > > that it > > would be problematic for people on CentOS, Redhat and related distros > > earlier than say, CentOS 7. 7 has 2.7, but 6 has 2.6 (and not the > > latest > > version, either). Anyone who wanted to use CentOS 6 would have to > > install > > Python 2.7.x to use Scons. Might not want to do it, or would go with > > an > > earlier version. > > Of course,… > > CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux, etc. don't come with SCons so it has to > be installed. Is it a hardship to have to install a version of Python > as well as SCons? Not really, especially on these systems. Although the > main repository doesn't have Python 3 necessarily, there are "add on" > repositories for these distributions that certainly do. So it is just > package management, unlike for SCons :-) > > Debian 8 is also Python 2.7 > > > > -- > 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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