[Scons-users] How important is python 3?

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 10:15 -0500, Robert Lupton the Good 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.


There are organizations doing the opposite and going to Python3 because
it is the future, Python 2 is now a dead end.  Thus the issue is that
SCons has to support both versions of Python or begin to lose users.


> 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))


One of the problems of being a completely volunteer organization with
no-one able to put more than cursory amounts of time into the project.
Either more volunteers need to chip in or organizations need to devote
resource to ensuring things like this get addressed.

-- 
Russel.
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