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

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Nicholas Bastin <nick.bastin at gmail.com>wrote:


> 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.

>

> Hmm, that _is_ an interesting idea.  Using pyinstaller or something like

that, I assume. Could just be an option, kind of like do you want all of
Java or just the JVM?  Do you want a python with your SCons? :-)  Actually
we have some GSoC code to package SCons + python on Windows already (fully
standalone SCons); it just needs to be integrated.

-- 
Gary
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