[Scons-users] Why SCons is not slow

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 18:43 +0100, Saša Janiška wrote:
> On Pet, 2016-01-08 at 09:22 -0800, Bill Deegan wrote:
> 
> Hiya Bill,
> 
> > Can you explain what impact SCons not running under python 3 will
> > make
> > for your usage?
> 
> The other day I did ask about it in the Nuitka project and here is
> the
> point "...what I dislike about Scons currently is that it is not
> Python3
> ported. That makes me require a Python2 installation to create a
> binary
> of Python3 binary, which is mostly an issue on Windows, where it's
> not
> automatically there."

I believe Windows is the only platform that has any problems with
multiple Python installations, mostly because of the travesty that is
the registry.

> I bet that e.g. when using Cython in my project I'd face similar
> thing,
> iow. requirement to have Python-2 installed for SCons and Python-3
> for
> the project itself, right?

There is Cython and Cython3, so why is Python version and Scons an
issue here?

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