[Scons-users] [scons-users] Support for Python 3?

[Nicholas Bastin]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Robert Lupton the Good
<rhl at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:

>> Is building a local version of python 2.7 or 3.2 a barrier for people building software?

>

> I'd say yes, in general.  You need to commit to a complete new universe, installing all packages you need.  For

> example, your system might have a copy of scipy installed (non-trivial...) and you really don't want to repeat that work

> just to use scons.


There's no reason why scons packages for older distributions can't be
a binary that includes the python version they require, properly
sandboxed.

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NIck