[Scons-users] installing scons via `pip install scons` doesn't work.

[Daniel Holth]

Sounds good to me.

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017, 13:31 Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:

> Picking this back up.
>
> I'm o.k. with dropping everything in existing setup.py to fix pypi install.
> I've started work on creating a vanilla setup.py but I'm a newbie at this
> so any help would be welcome.
> Ideally we'd be able to use pip install -e against the git checkout,
> create pypi packages (wheel seems to be the correct thing today).
>
> Currently bootstrap.py add version strings to all the source files, I'm
> pretty sure there's no "legal" reason to update the copyright date in each
> file.
>
> We would like to keep building the scons-local packages, but setup.py is
> not really needed to do that.
>
> Use console_scripts to build the scons, sconsign, and other scripts so it
> will use the correct version of python.
>
>
> thoughts?
> -Bill
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There's the code I used to put SCons in a wheel starting from the source
>> archives it makes currently. It would require minor changes to work with
>> enscons 0.5.0.
>> https://bitbucket.org/dholth/scons-wheel/src/tip/SConstruct . It finds
>> the files, puts them in the root of the wheel and it'll get installed into
>> site-packages, and depending on a flag it puts different code in a Python 3
>> wheel. If you want multiple versions then virtualenv is there for you. If
>> you wanted more "creative" installs then you might prefer to do that during
>> the installation of the wheel instead of baking into the wheel itself.
>>
>> Long story short if you are okay with dropping a lot of features from
>> setup.py and re-implementing it just in SCons as a more typical Python
>> package I would be up for that. What do you really need setup.py to do?
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 3:26 PM Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel,
>>>
>>> Any chance you'd take a pass at fixing the setup.py in SCons?
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have published a special version called import_scons that's a wheel.
>>>> It doesn't install the script so you have to say python -m SCons to run.
>>>> Maybe it will be easier to get going.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 20:20 Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Seems that pip inside a virtualenv works.
>>>>> But not outside.
>>>>> I think that's the current situation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also any way to tell what version of pip is being run?
>>>>>
>>>>> -Bill
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Stefan Seefeld <stefan at seefeld.name>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to install scons via `pip install scons`, and get the
>>>>>> following cryptic error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ pip install scons
>>>>>> Collecting scons
>>>>>>   Using cached scons-2.5.0.tar.gz
>>>>>> Installing collected packages: scons
>>>>>>   Running setup.py install for scons ... error
>>>>>>     Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c "import
>>>>>> setuptools,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-UnhHp6/scons/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,
>>>>>> 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__,
>>>>>> 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-zIuAOx-record/install-record.txt
>>>>>> --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
>>>>>>     usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
>>>>>>        or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
>>>>>>        or: -c --help-commands
>>>>>>        or: -c cmd --help
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any idea what is causing this, and how to fix it ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         Stefan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS: I'm actually trying to upgrade to a newer version of scons in a
>>>>>> travis-ci environment (the default version is 2.3.0 - too old for me
>>>>>> as
>>>>>> it doesn't support clang), and so I hoped that `pip` would be able to
>>>>>> help...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
>>>>>>
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