Re: [Python-Dev] Small lament...

[Eric Fahlgren]

Oh, man, it has been a while.  The last one I remember is PEP 404 (if you
can find it :) ), dated 2011 and it wasn't an April Fool's...

On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 11:23 AM Skip Montanaro 
wrote:

> Just wanted to throw this out there... I lament the loss of waking up on
> April 1st to see a creative April Fool's Day joke on one or both of these
> lists, often from our FLUFL... Maybe such frivolity still happens, just not in
> the Python ecosystem? I know you can still import "this" or
> "antigravity", but those are now old (both introduced before 2010). When
> was the last time a clever easter egg was introduced or an April Fool's Day
> joke played?
>
> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>
> Skip
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Re: [Scons-dev] SCons 3.1.2 Released

[Eric Fahlgren]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 7:02 PM Bill Deegan 
wrote:

> - EXPERIMENTAL NEW FEATURE: Enable caching MSVC configuration
>   If SCONS_CACHE_MSVC_CONFIG shell environment variable is set,
>   SCons will cache the results of past calls to vcvarsall.bat to
>   a file; integrates with existing memoizing of such vars.
>   On vs2019 saves 5+ seconds per SCons invocation, which really
>   helps test suite runs.
>

Thanks a bunch for this one!  Our bare, no-target 'scons' invocation is
down to about 0.8 seconds now, and we can do a single DLL build in ~2.5 s,
which makes things very snappy indeed.
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