[Scons-users] No more windows installers? (Pip/tar/zip going forward)

[Eric Fahlgren]

I just did a quick'n'dirty test to see if I could make a true wheel, and it
was breathtakingly easy.  I will dig into this and see if I can come up
with a streamlined way to just generate the wheel directly during the
build, but post-facto converting the existing tgz was very simple.  (Run on
Win10, cpython 2.7.14 that has SCons 3.0.0 already installed.)

> git clone https://github.com/SConsProject/scons.git
> cd scons
> scons
... builds SCons ...

> cd build/dist/
> pip install wheel
...
> pip wheel scons-3.0.0.tar.gz
Processing c:\users\efahlgren\scons\build\dist\scons-3.0.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: scons
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for scons: started
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for scons: finished with status 'done'
  Stored in directory: c:\users\efahlgren\scons\build\dist
Successfully built scons

> ll *.whl
-rwx------+ 1 efahlgren x 686677 2017-09-29 13:58
scons-3.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl*

> pip uninstall -y wheel scons
... ensure no 'wheel' package ...

> pip install scons-3.0.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
... it works! ...

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Rob,
>
> setup.py was the supported way.
> I'm trying to move forward to pip install being the preferred way, but of
> course setup.py would also be supported for some time.
>
> There are some issues with the setup.py which break pip on occasion, we
> should weed those out going forward.
> (Of course any help here is most welcome)
>
> -Bill
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Rob Boehne <robb at datalogics.com> wrote:
>
>> I would also love pip to be the preferred method of installation.
>> Currently using python 2.7 with scons-2.5.1, I use pip for everything in my
>> virtual environment setup except for scons, which won’t install via pip on
>> every platform.  IIRC, I asked about this a while back and was told that
>> setup.py was the only supported method.  So for scons, I have a source tree
>> that I run setup.py install from.  It’d be really nice to ditch that and do
>> everything the same way.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *Scons-users <scons-users-bounces at scons.org> on behalf of Eric
>> Fahlgren <ericfahlgren at gmail.com>
>> *Reply-To: *SCons users mailing list <scons-users at scons.org>
>> *Date: *Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 6:46 PM
>> *To: *SCons users mailing list <scons-users at scons.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: [Scons-users] No more windows installers? (Pip/tar/zip
>> going forward)
>>
>>
>>
>> For me, the pip wheel was a welcome improvement.  I use pip to install
>> almost all of our Windows/Python toolchain, so when SCons moved into a
>> wheel, it made me happy that I could get rid of another special case.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Any strong opinions on keeping the windows installers?
>>
>> pip install should work on any platform going forward.
>>
>> Also the zip file and be python setup.py install'd
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
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