[Scons-users] Scons 2.3.1 on Python 2.4.3 won't build

[Bill Deegan]

Stijn,

It may have worked fine, but scons 2.4 and above makes no guarantees to
work on python below 2.7.

-Bill


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Stijn De Ruyck <Stijn.DeRuyck at onsemi.com>
wrote:

>  Fwiw, tried Scons 2.3.0 and it seems to work with Python 2.4.3. At least
> it gets past that simple build testcase; I haven’t tried more exotic stuff,
> these are only my first steps with Scons…
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> *From:* Scons-users [mailto:scons-users-bounces at scons.org] *On Behalf Of *William
> Blevins
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 04, 2014 8:57 PM
>
> *To:* SCons users mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [Scons-users] Scons 2.3.1 on Python 2.4.3 won't build
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> I think that this was an oversight by the developers.  I noticed that
> 2.3.1 wasn't compatible with 2.4.X months ago, but I never submitted a bug
> report.  If this was intentional, then the documentation wasn't updated
> because SCons 2.3.X still shows the banner for "Python versions older than
> 2.7.X are deprecated."  I assume by industry convention that SCons will
> move to version 3.X when they intend to make the 2.7 transition final.
>
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> I use SCons 2.3.0 with python 2.4.X and it works fine, but I may just have
> gotten lucky.
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> V/R,
>
> William
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> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 11:58 +0000, Stijn De Ruyck wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to use Scons 2.3.1 on Python 2.4.3.
> […]
> > I know support for Python pre-2.7 is now deprecated, but that shouldn't
> mean "unsupported", or is it?
>
> The floor version of Python was raised to Python 2.7 for SCons 2.3.0 and
> code used that required Python 2.7. This means if you are using Python
> prior to 2.7 you have to use a SCons prior to 2.3. Thus I think you will
> have to work with SCons 2.2.0 until you are in a position to upgrade you
> Python version to 2.7.
>
> […]
>
> --
> Russel.
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