In case anyone has missed recent news, SCons seems now to work without any problems using Python 3 (the one true Python – until Python 4, obviously). I am using Python 3 to run all my SCons D builds.

Obviously this relates to using a checkout of the mainline Mercurial repository and using default branch. I am hoping that Bill will move to creating a new release soon. This will then appear on Arch and Fedora Rawhide fairly quickly I suspect. Debian will be ages yet as it is still in Debian 9 lockdown.  Ubuntu and Mint, well who knows.

I can recommend using SCons from the mainline repository. I use it with alias:

alias scons="python3 /home/users/russel/Repositories/Mercurial/Forks/SCons/src/script/scons.py

but, obviously, that only works for my location of the clone.

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On Thursday, 8 June 2017 at 09:42:50 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> In case anyone has missed recent news, SCons seems now to work without any problems using Python 3

Nice.

> I am using Python 3 to run all my SCons D builds.

Me too :)