Eric Firing wrote:
> Michael Droettboom wrote:
>> I'm working through some recent mpl bugs in the tracker.  Here's one 
>> that relates to a mis-matched pair of PyObject_New/PyMem_DEL calls in 
>> _subprocess.c.  This file is a copy of a file included with Python 
>> 2.5, so it's really a bug we inherited from there.
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1949978&group_id=80706&atid=560720
>>  
>>
>>
>> Read the Debian bug for more detailed info:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468977
>>
>> It seems this bug was found using an automated tool and only 
>> represents a theoretical problem.  The Debian folks also rightly 
>> don't care since matplotlib's _subprocess.c only gets built in Win32 
>> with Python < 2.5.
>
> Mike,
>
> subprocess is new in 2.4, so I assume we should build it only for 
> Python < 2.4, correct?  In that case, it can be removed entirely from 
> the trunk, since we are requiring >= 2.4 there.  Last week I put in 
> the version-checking and removed the subprocess build from 
> setupext.py, but I did not remove the _subprocess.c file itself--just 
> in case the decision to require 2.4 was reconsidered.
>
Sounds good.  We can leave my update on the 0.91.x maintenance branch, 
however.  I suspect its fine to do so.

Cheers,
Mike

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA


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