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

[Antonio Cavallo]

I'm not talking about an "installer" but a more stand alone single executable: this will allow to standardise development on python 2.7 and not to worry about back/forward compatibility.

Was that the kind of code from the GSoC?

Thanks

On 21 Aug 2013, at 20:23, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com> wrote:


> 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?

> >

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