Seems like AppVeyor just upgraded pip and finally removed the deprecated --egg switch.
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ cache:
install:
- SET "PATH=%PYTHON%;%PYTHON%\\Scripts;%PATH%"
- - pip install --egg scons # it will fail on AppVeyor without --egg flag
+ - pip install -U wheel # needed for pip install scons to work, otherwise a flag is missing
+ - pip install scons
- if defined VS call "%VS%" %ARCH% # if defined - so we can also use mingw
before_build: