[Scons-users] Is the warning about missing pywin32 extensions on parallel builds still needed?

[Bill Deegan]

Richard,

That's a very good question.
I'll have to look into it.

-Bill

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Richard Viney <richard.viney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When running parallel builds under SCons 2.3.6 and Python 2.7.10 on
> Windows you get the following warning if the pywin32 extensions aren’t
> installed:
>
> scons: warning: you do not seem to have the pywin32 extensions installed;
>         parallel (-j) builds may not work reliably with open Python files.
>
> This was discussed back in 2008 here:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.scons.user/17858
>
> It seems that there were ancient Python versions with threading bugs and
> the pywin32 extensions were needed to work around these issues.
>
> I’m curious whether this still applies given that Python >= 2.6 is now
> required? Is this warning still relevant and is pywin32 needed?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
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