On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bob> The easy fix is to upgrade your OS. I don't think anyone > is going > Bob> to bother with the preprocessor hackery necessary to make > that > Bob> (harmless) warning go away on older versions of the OS. > > Excuse me, but this really pisses me off. I delayed upgrading from > 10.2 for > awhile and was given the same "advice". I was further told (check > the mac > sig archives) that "you'd be able to stick with 10.3 for much longer" > because new apps wouldn't need to require 10.4. So I upgraded. > Now you're > telling me that it's somehow "obsolete" and that I should upgrade > because > "we can't be bothered to fix a compiler warning"? Python supports > much > older versions of other platforms. What makes Mac OSX so special > in this > regard?
The compiler warning is harmless. It's probably about 10 lines of code and an hour of testing to fix it, then you'd need to backport to 2.4, etc. Also, in order to do it properly you need to have access to older versions of the OS in order to see the warning and test to make sure you didn't break anything. Who's going to bother? It's just not practical to fix something that isn't broken. The thing that makes Mac OS X "special" is that there don't seem to be Python developers who are both knowledgeable and willing to make sure everything works on all versions of the OS. Since you seem to care, why don't you take up the task? -bob _______________________________________________ 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