Martin v. Löwis wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >>Is the added complexity needed to support not having Unicode support >>compiled into Python really worth it ? > > If there are volunteers willing to maintain it, and the other volunteers > are not affected: certainly.
No objections there. I only see that --disable-unicode has already been broken a couple of times in the past and no-one (except those running test suites regularly) really noticed - at least not AFAIK. >>I know that Martin introduced this feature a long time ago, >>so he will have had a reason for it. > > I added it because users requested it. I personally never use it. > >>Today, I think the situation has changed: computers have more >>memory, are faster and the need to integrate (e.g. via XML) >>is stronger than ever - and maybe we should consider removing >>the option to get a cleaner code base with fewer #ifdefs >>and SyntaxErrors from the standard lib. >> >>What do you think ? > > -0 for just ripping it out. +0 if PEP 5 is followed, atleast > in spirit (i.e. give users advance warning to let them protest). > > I guess users in embedded builds (either in embedded systems, > or embedding Python into some other application) might still > be interested in the feature. Of course, these users could either > recreate the feature if we remove it, or just stay with > Python 2.4. If embedded build users rely on it, I'd suggest that these users take over maintenance of the patch set. Let's add a note to the configure switch that the feature will be removed in 2.6 and see what happens. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 30 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ 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
