Re: Minimum Version for Tools

Bill Deegan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.tools.scons.user
Message-ID <CAEyG4CF+fb6pFgUq=ytOb_L77JPXXRyySWVgcqStZJdQDYpJtA@mail.gmail.com>
I'd second Thomas' answer.
Just try/except for those things you use which change.
There aren't many that are in common usage.
In general we go through a deprecation cycle for items listed in the
manpage.
Internals aren't subject to such, but will be mentioned in the CHANGES.txt
and RELEASE.txt.

-Bill

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 5:35 AM Mats Wichmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6/20/21 5:40 AM, Thomas Berg wrote:
>
> > I did wonder if this API breakage was accidental though, or if it was
> > intentional.
>
> Intentional, but perhaps not completely well-considered.  The intent was
> to remove conflicts with names Python already uses - having Warning as
> the base class of all Python warnings and also as the name of the base
> class of all SCons warnings had some potential for confusion when used
> unqualified - obviously there's no issue if every single mention of the
> internal one is spelled SCons.Warnings.Warning.  The same change was
> made to EnvironmentError, the internal one is now SConsEnvironmentError.
>
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