[Scons-users] Is there a plan to support visual studio 2017 in the next release of Scons?

[Bill Deegan]

Dean,

Also looks like it finds all installs of VS on the system?
So might work to replace all existing logic used to find install?

_Bill

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Dean Glazeski <dnglaze at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did the original pull request and have done some work integrating one of
> my other tools to use vswhere.  I just need to find a slice of time to
> update that pull request to rely on vswhere to locate VS2017.  That might
> have a better chance of inclusion than relying on another library to do the
> COM lookup.  At least I believe that's the current hold up.
>
> vswhere is actually pretty nice because you can pull out installation
> information as JSON so it's pretty simple to load it all up.
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 2:57 PM Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 03:46 +0000, Napat Parkpien wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > My team is migrating to visual studio 2017, but current release of scons
>> > is not support it.
>> > Is there a way to support vs2017 in current release?
>> > Or will it support in the next version?
>> >
>>
>> SCons is a FOSS project with no paid workers. So even if a feature is
>> important, it relies on volunteers to step up to create pull requests.
>>
>> An excellent way for other projects wanting new features in SCons is, as
>> you
>> have done, raise the point on this email list. This may then lead to
>> someone
>> volunteering to create a pull request, or it may not. In the case of not,
>> it
>> really requires the proposer to resource creating the pull request ether
>> by
>> getting someoe internal to do it or by funding someone external to do it.
>>
>> Clearly this point about SCons and VS2017 is important for SCons, I think
>> Bill has responded on this. However, that gives us agreement that it is on
>> the roadmap, but it doesn't neessarily mean it will get done – unless
>> someone for whom the problem is important steps up and provides a pull
>> request.
>>
>> Is there any chance you team can chip in by making VS2017 and SCons
>> compatible? SCons version 3.0 is in alpha but that makes i an excellent
>> time
>> to get a puul request in.
>>
>>
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