[Scons-users] Intermiddent build error on Windows - cl : Command line error D8022 : cannot open 'c:\users\admini~1\appdata\local\temp\tmpekylod.lnk'

[Bill Deegan]

Py2/3 is a work in progress.
Help is most welcome!
:)

Ideally all our internal tests won't have to be rewritten or duplicated one
omitting print().

Is gpsd using six or futurize?

-Bill

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Fred Wright <fw at fwright.net> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Bill Deegan wrote:
>
> > As William said. Going forward (at least the current plan), print() will
> be
> > required so both py 2.x and 3.x can be supported by the same SCons
> codebase.
>
> I.e., it now has "from __future__ import print_function".  But if the
> "2.7+" is based on the erroneous claim that it's a requirement for
> "polyglot" code, you should be aware that I found no issues in testing
> GPSD's (unreleased) "polyglot" code with 2.6 (the actual minimum version
> for print_function).
>
> As far as Python 3 versions go, it was originally going to make 3.3 the
> minimum, but I was able to push that back to 3.2 just by getting rid of a
> couple of unnecessary Unicode literals (a Python 2 feature removed in 3.0
> and reinstated in 3.3).  It's not worth bothering with 3.0 or 3.1, though.
>
> Fortunately the future import stuff is per-module, so it doesn't
> automatically force that behavior on SConstruct scripts, but if SCons
> is actually run under Python 3, then scripts would have to be compatible
> with Python 3.  Perhaps there should be an "scons2" command.
>
> Fred Wright
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