[Scott David Daniels] >>>> I'd guess this belongs in 2.5, with a possible retrofit for 2.4.
[Raymond Hettinger] >>> +1 on backporting, but that is up to Anthony. [Martin v. L?wis wrote] >> Correct me if I'm wrong - but there isn't much "porting" to this. >> AFAICT, this is only relevant for the Windows build (i.e. which >> version is used in the binaries). For the source distribution, there >> should be no change (except for PCbuild/readme.txt, which should >> reflect the version that is used in the Windows build). FWIW, >> this currently talks about 1.2.1. [Trent Mick] > Here is a patch to do this (attached) that works on the trunk and > against the Python-2.4.1.tgz source tarball. Shall I check this into the > HEAD and release24-maint? Definitely on HEAD, almost certainly on 24 maint. The slight uncertainty wrt the latter is due to the slim possibility that they also made this version of zlib incompatible in some way. I doubt that, but I haven't tried it. BTW, the NEWS files should add a blurb saying Python moved to a new zlib, under a "Windows" section. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
