Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > >> Even if their servers won't run ubuntu 11.04+ (or something with the > > >> same library paths), their development environments will. > > > > > >They can also patch the Python releases themselves, or use Ubuntu > > >packages that someone else made for them (they can probably just install > > >the old 2.4 packages just fine). > > > > The Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2 packages in Ubuntu 11.04 already have > > essentially > > the same patch that I posted, so folks using Python 2.6 from the operating > > system will not have a problem. Without this patch in our repository, folks > > building Python 2.6 from source will have to be aware of it. > > So let them use Python 2.6 from Ubuntu. Case closed!
It isn't that simple. For example, I have automated scripts that test cdecimal against decimal.py for *every* release from r25 to r32. This is also the reason why I was unhappy that r25 did not build from Mercurial initially. There has been a lot of churn lately for module authors, starting with __pycache__, cpython-32m.so suffixes and ending in the mercurial transition. In this case, it's clearly Ubuntu who is going to break things. Still, the proposed patch could make life a lot easier for many people. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ 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
