[Scons-users] How important is python 3?

Alexey Petruchik i100500 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 11:01:50 EST 2012


+1


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Robert Lupton the Good <
rhl at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:


> -1

>

> We have no plans to move to python 3, and we fear that python 3 would be a

> distraction while there are still things that don't quite work in scons as

> it is (let alone the speed/memory issues). If moving to python3 would help

> the development that's another matter, but my reading on python3 is that

> that's unlikely to be the case.

>

> For example http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2798 which has

> been open for a year and with a status of NEW. (The bug is a report that

> changing the order of targets causes a rebuild (it's to do with dependency

> tracking in swig and C++ being different))

>

> R

>

> ("We" is a large astronomical software project in C++/python supporting a

> probably-soon-to-be-built 8.4m telescope, the LSST)

>

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