Obnoxious auto-package fetching...

[hergljkds]

Auto-package-fetching in scons? wtf.

How about a functional install script that works with setuptools in a sandbox?

[bdbaddog]

Closing. No WTF's appreciated.
Feel free to bring your issues to the mailing list, IRC channel, or discord server.

[mwichmann]

It would really help if, when you follow @bdbaddog 's redirect, you describe the actual problem. SCons doesn't even need to be "built", you can just run directly from source, or from the scons-local zipapp if you care to. If you want to do a complete build, then there are some dependencies for the documentation, which uses the DocBook toolchain and Sphinx, and nothing is autofetched (the Python components of that are captured in requirements-pkg.txt). Under the covers, the full build for building the uploadable wheel is in fact doing python -m build which is pretty functional and sandboxable. At least, I always build in a virtualenv, but not a true sandbox due to the need for non-Python tools for the doc build, as mentioned.