Hello! Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible to use an external version of python. The official parser does not provide some of the information which is required for proper static analysis; upstream refused to accept my patches changing what would have been needed to make it work (see http://bugs.python.org/issue10769). Stripping the parser out of the python package is very difficult, since it relies on PyObject data structures. Writing (and maintaining!) a custom parser would mean far more trouble than updating this one.
Security fixes to the *parser* should be extremely rare. Other fixes are not relevant, since none of the runtime stuff is actually being used by kdev-python (just the parser). Greetings, Sven 2012/12/6 Pino Toscano <p...@kde.org>: > Alle giovedì 6 dicembre 2012, Sven Brauch ha scritto: >> If you find any issues, please tell me so I can fix them as quickly >> as possible. > > The embedded (and modified) copy of python 2.7.1 does not seem a good > idea... is there *really* no way to use an external (lib)python? > It seems python gets some CVE from time to time, so this would impose an > extra burden on packagers (and self-compiling users which need to patch > and upgrade on their own). > > -- > Pino Toscano