[Scons-dev] modernize 0.4 is released for Python 3 porting experiments

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 00:40 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
[…]
> Mercurial developers are very skeptical about Python 3 porting
> for system level utilities, so I am not alone:
> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Python3
[…]

Mercurial has been built on the fundamental assumption that string is a
sequence of bytes. They therefore cannot easily switch from Python 2 to
Python 3. Their problem. This issue doesn't affect SCons as far as I am
aware.

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