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

[Bill Deegan]

O.k.
-Bill

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Dean Glazeski <dnglaze at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's true, but I don't know if I would go that far. Some folks aren't
> going to install 2017 at which point you'd make SCons useless for Windows
> developers.  You also lose some query modes if you start using the legacy
> mode of vswhere.  I would keep the old discovery methods until those old
> versions are no longer supported.
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017, 17:26 Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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