[Scons-users] SCons 3.0.0.alpha.20170614 available on testpypi

[RW]

Just to follow this looks like a windows only bug
Linux doesn't seem to have this problem

On 20 June 2017 at 10:20, RW <garlicbready at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I think I've spotted another bug
> I've recently tried to use fixtures in a test I'm working on (python27 /
> win10)
> This should use a sub directory of "image" relative to the test calling
> it, but seems to fail
> ```
> test.dir_fixture('image')
> ```
>
> Using a test already in the sources that uses test.dir_fixture to
> demonstrate
> Runs okay under 2.5.1, but fails under 3.0 alpha
> ```
> python runtest.py test\packaging\convenience-fun
> ctions\convenience-functions.py
> ```
>
> Failure message
> ```
> (testenv) D:\SourceControl\GitRepos\scons>python runtest.py
> test\packaging\convenience-functions\convenience-functions.py
> 1/1 (100.00%) D:\\SourceControl\\GitRepos\\scons\\testenv\\Scripts\\python.exe
> -tt test\packaging\convenience-functions\convenience-functions.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test\packaging\convenience-functions\convenience-functions.py",
> line 36, in <module>
>     test.dir_fixture( "image" )
>   File "D:\SourceControl\GitRepos\scons\QMTest\TestCmd.py", line 1325, in
> dir_fixture
>     for entry in os.listdir(spath):
> WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified:
> '\\SourceControl\\GitRepos\\scons\\test\\fixture\\image/*.*'
> ```
>
> If I use a absolute directory path within the call to test.dir_fixture
> then this seems to work okay
>
> Many Thanks
> Richard
>
> On 14 June 2017 at 21:49, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> This is an alpha quality release.
>> It's the first version to support both python 3.5+, 2.7.x, and pypy.
>> There have been 701 commits since the 2.5.1 release.
>>
>> Please report any issues to the scons-users mailing list.
>> (See: http://scons.org/lists.html )
>>
>>
>> You can download via:
>> pip install -i https://testpypi.python.org/pypi scons
>>
>> Please do so in a virtualenv and not in your python distro.
>>
>> RELEASE 3.0.0.alpha.20170614 - Mon, 14 Jun 2017 12:23:56 -0400
>>
>>   Please consult the RELEASE.txt file for a summary of changes since the
>> last
>>   release and consult the CHANGES.txt file for complete a list of changes
>>   since last release.  This announcement highlights only the important
>>   changes.
>>     Please note the following important changes since release 2.5.1:
>>        *IT IS NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION USE*
>>
>>        This is the initial release supporting both python 3.5+ and 2.7.x
>> and pypy
>>        There are some important changes:
>>
>>        - Any print statements must now use python 3 syntax of "print()"
>>        - All node content should be in bytes. This is the default in
>> python 2.7.x,
>>          in Python 3 all strings are by default unicode. byte and/or
>> bytearray
>>          should be used if you construct content for return by a custom
>> node type's
>>          get_content() method.
>>        - This is some (as yet unresolved issue) using Literal()'s in some
>> context with
>>          Python 3
>>        - pypy should be supported, please report any issues to the user's
>> mailing list.
>>        - Currently if you switch back and forth between python 2.7.x and
>> 3.5+ you will
>>          need to remove your sconsign file.  This should be resolves
>> shortly, but
>>          regardless switching between python 2.7.x and 3.5+ will not use
>> compatible
>>          sconsigns and as such incremental builds should be expected to
>> rebuild
>>          anything changed since the previous scons run with the same
>> version of python.
>>        - It is likely that migrating from 2.5.1 -> 3.0.0 alpha will cause
>> rebuilds due
>>          to the significant number of changes in the codebase.
>>
>>        - Removed deprecated tools CVS, Perforce, BitKeeper, RCS, SCCS,
>> Subversion.
>>        - Removed deprecated module SCons.Sig
>>        - See CHANGES.txt for more details on other changes
>>        - 3.0.0 should be slightly faster than 2.5.1.  Changes yielded a
>> 15% speed up for
>>          null incremental builds.
>>        - Updated D language scanner support to latest: 2.071.1.
>>        - python -m SCons should now run SCons if it's installed PYTHONPATH
>>
>>
>>
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