• [Python-announce] SCons 4.10.1 is now available with MSVC 2026 support

    From Bill Deegan@bill@baddogconsulting.com to comp.lang.python.announce on Sun Nov 16 14:44:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.python.announce

    A new SCons release, 4.10.1, is now available on the SCons download page:

    https://scons.org/pages/download.html


    Here is a summary of the changes since PREVIOUS_RELEASE:

    NEW FUNCTIONALITY
    -----------------

    - Add support for Visual Studio 2026.

    CHANGED/ENHANCED EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY
    ---------------------------------------

    - Switch test framework from using profile to cProfile. profile
    generates deprecation warnings starting with Python 3.15.

    FIXES
    -----

    - Enable membership tests on instances of Literal (non-substituting string).

    - In the SequenceTypes tuple used for dynamic type checks, include
    the dict contents views, exclude the dictionary view itself as it
    is not an iterable sequence type.

    IMPROVEMENTS
    ------------

    - Internal: where the find method on a string was used to determine
    if a substring is present, use the more readable "in" and "not in".

    DOCUMENTATION
    -------------

    - Improve documentation of builder methods and builder objects.

    - Make links clickable in the SetOption and GetOption manpage entries.

    Thanks to the following contributors listed below for their contributions
    to this release. ==========================================================================================
    .. code-block:: text

    git shortlog --no-merges -ns 4.10.0..HEAD
    12 Mats Wichmann
    4 William Deegan
    1 Thaddeus Crews
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