Remove broken experimental package scons

[mkoeppe]

It is unused and not compatible with python3. It was made experimental in #28687.

https://github.com/mkoeppe/sage/runs/876312062

  [scons-1.2.0]   ****************************************************
  [scons-1.2.0]   Package 'scons' is currently not installed
  [scons-1.2.0]   No legacy uninstaller found for 'scons'; nothing to do
  [scons-1.2.0]     File "setup.py", line 336
  [scons-1.2.0]       mode = ((os.stat(file)[stat.ST_MODE]) | 0555) & 07777
  [scons-1.2.0]                                                  ^
  [scons-1.2.0]   SyntaxError: invalid token
  [scons-1.2.0]   Error installing scons

CC: @jhpalmieri @dimpase @fchapoton

Component: packages: experimental

Author: Matthias Koeppe, John Palmieri

Branch/Commit: 41a3e66

Reviewer: Dima Pasechnik

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/30155

[mkoeppe]

Branch: u/mkoeppe/remove_broken_experimental_package_scons

[mkoeppe]

Changed branch from u/mkoeppe/remove_broken_experimental_package_scons to none

[mkoeppe]

Author: Matthias Koeppe

[mkoeppe]

Branch: u/mkoeppe/remove_broken_experimental_package_scons

[dimpase]

Commit: 68bfa4b

[dimpase]

comment:4

also

$ grep -R scons src/doc/ 
src/doc/en/reference/repl/options.txt:  --scons [...]       -- run Sage's scons
src/doc/en/reference/spkg/index.rst:   scons
src/doc/en/reference/spkg/scons.rst:Website: http://www.scons.org/
src/doc/en/reference/spkg/scons.rst:-  SCons mailing lists - see http://www.scons.org/lists.php

got to go.

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New commits:

68bfa4b

build/pkgs/scons: Remove

[dimpase]

comment:5

there is also stuff in COPYING.txt

COPYING.txt:scons                       MIT License

[jhpalmieri]

Changed branch from u/mkoeppe/remove_broken_experimental_package_scons to u/jhpalmieri/remove_broken_experimental_package_scons

[jhpalmieri]

comment:7

The other option is to upgrade it, but I don't see much motivation to do that.

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New commits:

41a3e66

trac 30155: remove "sage --scons", remove scons info from COPYING.txt

[jhpalmieri]

Changed commit from 68bfa4b to 41a3e66

[mkoeppe]

Changed author from Matthias Koeppe to Matthias Koeppe, John Palmieri

[mkoeppe]

comment:9

Replying to @dimpase:

also

$ grep -R scons src/doc/ 
src/doc/en/reference/repl/options.txt:  --scons [...]       -- run Sage's scons
src/doc/en/reference/spkg/index.rst:   scons
src/doc/en/reference/spkg/scons.rst:Website: http://www.scons.org/
src/doc/en/reference/spkg/scons.rst:-  SCons mailing lists - see http://www.scons.org/lists.php

These are all autogenerated. Ready for review

[jhpalmieri]

comment:10

Replying to @mkoeppe:

Replying to @dimpase:

also

$ grep -R scons src/doc/ 
src/doc/en/reference/repl/options.txt:  --scons [...]       -- run Sage's scons
src/doc/en/reference/spkg/index.rst:   scons
src/doc/en/reference/spkg/scons.rst:Website: http://www.scons.org/
src/doc/en/reference/spkg/scons.rst:-  SCons mailing lists - see http://www.scons.org/lists.php

These are all autogenerated. Ready for review

Right; git grep scons doesn't show them. I do see

src/mac-app/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib/designable.nib:
   <menuItem title="scons" id="1386">
src/mac-app/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib/designable.nib:
   <menuItem title="scons" id="1604">

but I'm not worrying about those.

[dimpase]

Reviewer: Dima Pasechnik

[dimpase]

comment:11

these things in mac-app can be cleaned up on the ticket for cleaning up sws files from there.

(Is mac-app actually alive?
I can play around with Xcode to try to update it, we just got a newish MacPB from the office with macOS 10.15 - but I can't promise any timeline on this)

[mkoeppe]

comment:12

Thanks!

[vbraun]

Changed branch from u/jhpalmieri/remove_broken_experimental_package_scons to 41a3e66