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author | William Deegan <bill@baddogconsulting.com> | 2017-06-14 11:45:17 -0400 |
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committer | William Deegan <bill@baddogconsulting.com> | 2017-06-14 11:45:17 -0400 |
commit | 8b3b5443fed9eaf1a18def6e810281f85889d656 (patch) | |
tree | fa512e556ffb9a0b58121e7da36ecd4288e7edb7 /src/Announce.txt | |
parent | 5d171dea83e47bad5c6bc9e675cc02182f584f76 (diff) | |
download | scons-8b3b5443fed9eaf1a18def6e810281f85889d656.tar.gz |
updates for 3.0.0 alpha
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diff --git a/src/Announce.txt b/src/Announce.txt index a7b172d2..122de68b 100644 --- a/src/Announce.txt +++ b/src/Announce.txt @@ -18,14 +18,40 @@ So that everyone using SCons can help each other learn how to use it more effectively, please go to http://scons.org/lists.html#users to sign up for the scons-users mailing list. -RELEASE VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER +RELEASE 3.0.0 Alpha Please consult the RELEASE.txt file for a summary of changes since the last release and consult the CHANGES.txt file for complete a list of changes since last release. This announcement highlights only the important changes. + Please note the following important changes since release 2.5.1: + *IT IS NOT READY FOR PRODUCTION USE YET.* - - Please note the following important changes since release 2.4.1: + This is the initial release supporting both python 3.5+ and 2.7.x and pypy + There are some important changes: + + - Any print statements must now use python 3 syntax of "print()" + - All node content should be in bytes. This is the default in python 2.7.x, + in Python 3 all strings are by default unicode. byte and/or bytearray + should be used if you construct content for return by a custom node type's + get_content() method. + - This is some (as yet unresolved issue) using Literal()'s in some context with + Python 3 + - pypy should be supported, please report any issues to the user's mailing list. + - Currently if you switch back and forth between python 2.7.x and 3.5+ you will + need to remove your sconsign file. This should be resolves shortly, but + regardless switching between python 2.7.x and 3.5+ will not use compatible + sconsigns and as such incremental builds should be expected to rebuild + anything changed since the previous scons run with the same version of python. + + - Removed deprecated tools CVS, Perforce, BitKeeper, RCS, SCCS, Subversion. + - Removed deprecated module SCons.Sig + - See CHANGES.txt for more details on other changes + + + + + Please note the following important changes since release 2.4.1: We're enhancing implicit language scanning functionality to improve correctness. SCons now honors scanner keys for implicit dependencies and correctly changes scanner type (if necessary) when traversing |