[Scons-dev] SCons and Python 3

[Dirk Bächle]

Russel,

On 19.12.2015 10:39, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 09:22 +0100, Dirk Bächle wrote:
>>
> […]
>> @Russel: If all Buildbots turn out to be "green", feel free to merge
>> onto the python3 branch...
>
> It appears as though Windows is still a bit red, but I cannot in all
> honest profess any sadness.

feel free to latch on. The Windows bot seems to have had a "hiccup"...it didn't find any updates on its last "hg pull", but the last 
proper run was green. @Bill: Can you check the Windows setup? It looks to me as if it has a problem with merges over more than one 
commit. The slave seems to think that it has to process several commits, but pulls all of them in the first run anyway? That's how 
it looks to me at least...

As all the Linux variants are green, I
> shall take this as a "go" to do a merge to the Python 3 branch. This
> will undoubtedly lead to a right royal mess, but then that is the whole
> point – fix the mess.
>
> My assumptions will be:
>
> 	Python 3.4 and 3.5
> 	Python 2.7.10
> 	Debian Sid
> 	Fedora Rawhide
> 	No packages not in the standard distribution
> 	A lack of CI to cover Solaris, OSX or Windows
>

Sounds good.

> I may be gone a while…
>
> Progress will be reflected in  https://bitbucket.org/russel/scons__pyth
> on3
>

I'll definitely track that one. If you need help, just let us know...I'm sure that all the other devs (me included) are ready to 
jump in and help where they can.

Meanwhile, we others should try to come up with a plan of how to test Python 2.7 and 3.x in parallel in the future. Some people have 
nominated "tox" for this task already, but is this still the way to go...or can anybody recommend a better tool?

Best regards,

Dirk