[Scons-dev] status of python3 port

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2014-12-22 at 09:04 -0800, Ram Bhamidipaty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What's the status of getting scons to run on python3? Is there a 
> central
> place that tracks the issues? Maybe even a target timeline? Or list 
> of required milestones?



The activity is currently stalled. I had been hoping to put some 
effort into this in the past couple of weeks but stuff came up that 
had to have a higher priority.

There is a branch in the mainline Mercurial repository. It needs 
bringing up to date with progress on the default branch and then it 
needs whatever work is needed to make the code run under Python 2.7 
and Pythons 3.3 and later. Some will argue for supporting 2.6 but I 
would suggest that is not worthwhile. Pythons 3.[012] should in my 
view now be ignored. The branch has had a lot of work on it already so 
this is not starting from scratch but there is a lot to be done.

As there is no paid help, only volunteers, there is no point in trying 
to put timelines or milestones, or any other sort of project 
management on this. Progress will happen as those, like me, determined 
to eradicate Python 2 from their lives, get time to work on the 
problem.

I suggest though that with the "Very Big Change" happening to the 
default branch very soon now, best bet is to wait for that, remerge 
default into python3 branch and then deal with the fall out.

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