[Scons-dev] OK SCons not working under Python 3 now officially sucks.

Gary Oberbrunner garyo at oberbrunner.com
Wed Aug 21 14:23:19 EDT 2013


We actually have code for a standalone scons installer in a branch. It was
a GSoC project. It is for Windows only, currently, however.


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Antonio Cavallo <a.cavallo at cavallinux.eu>wrote:


> I think that making a stand alone executable out of scons would be a

> better idea (eg. like waf).

>

> The major stumbling block would be the python hard coded paths.

>

> I hope this helps

>

>

> On 21 Aug 2013, at 15:05, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

>

> > Because Debian Unstable is broken I had to switch to Fedora 19. The UNO

> > implementation provided by LibreOffice 4 on Fedora 19 provides only

> > Python 3.3 bindings. My PDF from LibreOffice toolchain is now broken :-(

> >

> > Is there any way, we can get some resource together so we can pay

> > someone to get the SCons codebase Python 2.7/3.3 compliant? Other

> > projects put out a begging bowl and get funds that way, cf. PyPy. Given

> > SCons is a foundation and has a bank account, can't we do some public

> > begging?

> >

> > --

> > Russel.

> >

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