[Scons-dev] plan for python3 port?

[Kenny, Jason L]

I think that can be done.. but there are places in which there are big fixes in libraries ( such as subprocess) that will require careful coding. Is the current BB testing setup to support testing with more than one version Python?

Jason

From: scons-dev-bounces at scons.org [mailto:scons-dev-bounces at scons.org] On Behalf Of Gary Oberbrunner
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 8:12 AM
To: SCons developer list
Subject: Re: [Scons-dev] plan for python3 port?

I thought people said there were issues with 2.6 that prevented the same code working in 3.x.  But indeed there's still a lot of python2.6 out there; if we could support 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x (x>=3) that would be a superb outcome.

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk<mailto:russel at winder.org.uk>> wrote:
On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 10:12 +0000, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) wrote:

> Those of us who aren't so active and are still on python 2.6 are going to be less happy, especially if we aren't entirely in control of which version of python we get to use.

<< I thought I had replied to this, but cannot see it. If an earlier
version turns up, sorry for the duplication. >>

RHEL appears determined to stay with Python 2.6 and I guess many other
have to as well. I was originally for the 2.7 floor to get at all the
backports of 3.3 stuff as and when. However if there are many SCons
users in need of executing on 2.6, and now that we know many projects
who are being Python 2 and Python 3 compliant are choosing 2.6, 2.7 and
3.3+ as their compliance list and succeeding (*), I wonder if SCons
should revert the 2.7 floor decision and consider a 2.6 floor decision.


(*) 2,5 and earlier are ignored as are 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2.

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