[Scons-dev] Would requiring Python 2.7.4 or above be a problem for future release?

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 13:23 -0700, Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> Hi All--
> The trouble with requiring a minimum of 2.7.x on all platforms is
> that it
> would be problematic for people on CentOS, Redhat and related distros
> earlier than say, CentOS 7.  7 has 2.7, but 6 has 2.6 (and not the
> latest
> version, either).  Anyone who wanted to use CentOS 6 would have to
> install
> Python 2.7.x to use Scons.  Might not want to do it, or would go with
> an
> earlier version.

Of course,…

CentOS, RHEL, Scientific Linux, etc. don't come with SCons so it has to
be installed. Is it a hardship to have to install a version of Python
as well as SCons? Not really, especially on these systems. Although the
main repository doesn't have Python 3 necessarily, there are "add on"
repositories for these distributions that certainly do. So it is just
package management, unlike for SCons :-)




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