[Scons-dev] Buildbot, Java and D...

[William Blevins]

I think the short answer is yes, we are trying to support 2.6 in the
future.  I agree with this notion since I would like RHEL6 default python
support, but wouldn't cry if I had to use a custom 2.7 install.  The real
question here is why is there confusion about this, and why does SCons
since 2.3.0 complain about pre-2.7 versus pre-2.6 if we are trying to
support 2.6?  That is a question I cannot answer...  I think that we should
either drop 2.6 support or fix the documentation and development
expectations.  Maybe the confusion with 2.7 is related to python 3 support?
 Once that branch roles out we probably cannot reasonably expect to support
2.6.

V/R,
William

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 00:06 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I just checked the latest Buildbot runs for my slaves and see
> >
> >    test/D/SharedObjects/sconstest-ldc.py
> >
> > failing under Fedora20. More importantly, the other slaves can't get
> […]
>
> My first reaction is: I do not believe this. My second reaction is: of
> course I believe it why would it lie to us.
>
> Looking at the waterfall view on the buildbot D has a role in  the
> redness of:
>
> Fedora 20 single LDC issue, will reboot to Fedora 20 and investigate.
>
> Debian 7 fails appear to be due to gdmd fails, Gary had flagged this, I
> will fix asap. The issue here is that these Debian versions are so old
> (!) that they are using a version of the GDC packaging that included
> gdmd which is no longer the case in up-to-date versions of GDC.
>
> Debian 6 D tests fails are down to using Python 2.6. The D tests are
> written assuming Python 2.7 which is the floor version of Python for
> SCons. For other bits of the D tools which had assumed 2.7 someone has
> added the truly ugly hack to make it work on 2.6. Yuk :-)
>
> I am guessing the other systems do not have D and now the D tests
> correctly do not run.
>
>
> So the main question is does SCons support Python 2.6 or not?
>
> --
> Russel.
>
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