[Scons-users] pip installation directory includes the version number

Bill Deegan bill at baddogconsulting.com
Sun May 27 20:07:08 EDT 2018


Richard,

I can see the expectation for the released builds, but for non-released
(scons-3.1.0.alpha.yyyymmdd) would it make sense to keep the version string
as is?

Feel free to file a bug (and of course Pull Request with a fix if you can.)

-Bill

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 4:44 PM, RW via Scons-users <scons-users at scons.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I just thought to check here before raising a issue on github
> It's a fairly minor thing, but I've noticed when installing scons via pip
> (ether stable or directly from github)
> the install directory tends to have the version number tagged on the back
>
> Looking at other packages under pythondir\Lib\site-packages\
> such as colorama, usually you have two directories in there such as
> colorama
> colorama-0.3.9.dist-info
>
> with scons instead you end up with
> scons-3.0.1
> scons-3.0.1.dist-info
> or
> scons-3.1.0.alpha.yyyymmdd
> scons-3.1.0.alpha.yyyymmdd.dist-info
>
> when I think it should be
> scons
> scons-3.0.1.dist-info
>
> I know scons isn't supposed to be imported directly into other python code
> but I've been using the path as part of the setup for visual studio code
> for some of my own tools
> https://github.com/ASoftTech/Scons.Gbd.Docs
> https://github.com/ASoftTech/Scons.Gbd.Builders
> and it's a bit annoying to have the directory name jump about depending on
> which scons I'm referencing.in the virtual environment
>
> Many Thanks
> Richard
>
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