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

[Bill Deegan]

What's the best way to collaborate?
I can create a branch in my repo and you fork it?

-Bill

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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