[Scons-users] Bootstrap-scons: a zero-dependency script for bootstrapping SCons and Python on Windows

[Bill Deegan]

You might also look at chocolatey.
Command line install for windows.

Though I don't think there's a scons package for chocolatey as of today.

-Bill

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:48 AM Ryan Saunders <jediry at outlook.com> wrote:

> Thanks Bill, good questions.
>
> I wasn't aware of "pip install", so my script is unpacking a scons-local
> package into a private directory. I'll take a look at pip as a possible
> improvement.
>
> Re: "how hard is it", perhaps the Linux world has made me lazy, but I
> personally find it obnoxious if I can't get a project into a buildable
> state just from the command line. "sudo apt install scons" is easy. Having
> to launch a browser to go hunt down Python, click through an installer, and
> then restart my shell... that's enough friction to be annoying. Doubly so,
> if I have to repeat this to acquire SCons. (Again, I didn't know about pip
> install.)
>
> Ryan
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> From: Bill Deegan
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 4:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Scons-users] Bootstrap-scons: a zero-dependency script for
> bootstrapping SCons and Python on Windows
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>
> I'm not sure how hard it is to download python and then pip install scons?
> Are you using pip to install scons if not installed?
> Are you createing a virtualenv or installing it in the python installl/?
>
> -Bill
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:37 PM Ryan Saunders < jediry at outlook.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello!
> This is to announce the v1.0 release of bootstrap-scons
> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fjediry%2Fbootstrap-scons&data=02%7C01%7C%7C8f5b80160276449892c208d6acc317a0%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636886351243357936&sdata=twGOqLygiXGsAY%2BmkfCmTwVixzBQ%2FhikO3NAui6S0vk%3D&reserved=0>,
> which I created for a personal project, and which I hope will be useful to
> others.
> One of the hurdles to building a project with SCons on Windows is the
> manual effort of installing dependencies. Unlike the UNIX world, where you
> can just say "./configure && make" to get up and running, on Windows you
> typically have to manually download and install SCons, and probably also
> Python...kind of a lot of effort.
> bootstrap-scons aims to make using SCons on Windows friction-free. This
> set of scripts uses only capabilities available out-of-the-box on any
> recent versions of Windows, to automatically locate and use any installed
> copies of SCons/Python, or optionally, to download them if not found.
> Read more at: https://github.com/jediry/bootstrap-scons
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> Feedback, feature requests and bug reports welcome. (Note: while this _
> *should*_ work on versions of Windows as far back as XP, I’ve only tested
> it on Win10 so far…if you try it on an earlier version, please report any
> issues on the GitHub issue tracker.)
> Ryan
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