Re: SCons 3.0.0.alpha.20170821 is available for your testing

2017-08-23 Thread Ben Finney
Bill Deegan writes: > What is SCons? Thank you for the explanation. That's information that is normally in every release announcement: what is it, and why is it relevant to the forum. You might like to add it to the template for future release announcements. -- \ “I distrust those peop

Re: SCons 3.0.0.alpha.20170821 is available for your testing

2017-08-23 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Bill Deegan : > What is SCons? > > SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a > next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, > cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated > functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches su

Re: SCons 3.0.0.alpha.20170821 is available for your testing

2017-08-23 Thread Bill Deegan
What is SCons? SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short, SC

Re: SCons 3.0.0.alpha.20170821 is available for your testing

2017-08-23 Thread Steve D'Aprano
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 09:51 am, Bill Deegan wrote: > All, > > You can install via: (PLEASE ONLY DO IN A VIRTUALENV AS THIS IS PRERELEASE) > > pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ > scons==3.0.0.alpha.20170821 What is scons and why should we be interested in it? Thanks, --

SCons 3.0.0.alpha.20170821 is available for your testing

2017-08-21 Thread Bill Deegan
All, You can install via: (PLEASE ONLY DO IN A VIRTUALENV AS THIS IS PRERELEASE) pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ scons==3.0.0.alpha.20170821 This version supports: Python 2.7.x, 3.5.x, 3.6.x NOTE: 1. You must rm your .sconsign file if you switch python versions between 2 a