On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Eric Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> That's my point. Since it's basically unreviewable, is it smart to do it >> during a beta? > > Hello folks - > I don't think these modifications are that "unreviewable": the > generated binaries have to be exactly the same with the untabified > files don't they? So is a matter of stashing the binaries, applying > the patches, rebuild and check to see if the binaries match. Any > possible script defects undetected by this would be only (C code) > indentation, which could be fixed later.
That's not foolproof, though: there are lots of sections of code that will only get compiled on certain platforms, or with certain configure options, etc. Mark _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
