[Scons-users] Why SCons is not slow

William Blevins wblevins001 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 13:43:08 EST 2016


See inline.

On Jan 8, 2016 6:31 PM, "Saša Janiška" <gour at atmarama.com> wrote:
>
> On Pet, 2016-01-08 at 10:04 -0800, Bill Deegan wrote:
>
> > O.k. so basically a hassle factor with needing both pythons installed
> > if you're doing something with python 3.
> > Good to know.
>
> But let me say that I'm angry at myself wasting lot of time in vain
> search for some adequate statically-compiled language to write desktop
> app with.
>
> Nothing seems close to PyQt and now I'm migrating into "Python-shop",
> so, maybe, I could somehow help SCons project in the future since
> learning it looks as better investment of time than CMake.
>
> > We have a few developers working on the python 3 compatibility effort.
>
> Bringing codebase to 2.7 would probably help a lot in regard.

Done :)
>
> > That said it's volunteer and on their own time, so predicting when
> > they'll be done is not easy or wise.
>
> I know. ;)
>
> > Hopefully before end of the year, if we're lucky in the next few
> > months.
>
> Let me say that on my Debian (Sid) books, I've both versions installed,
> so it's not such a problem.
>
> Otoh, having access to neither Windows machine (my last license was for
> XP), neither to Mac, it would be tolerable to use SCons without PYton 3
> support while I anyway plan to use PyInstaller to somehow provide
> binaries for Mac & Windows.
>
> > We're still working on getting everything we want into scons 2.5..
>
> What's on the plate for 2.5? Fixing that stub for improving performance?
>

There are several items already in the trunk including cross language
scanning support. I'm not sure what items are pending, but I believe the
stub-wrapper one of them.
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>
> --
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> than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind;
> and he [the soul] is even higher than the intelligence.
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