On 1/10/2013 8:54 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev <y...@shurup.com> wrote:
Anyways, the point is that it's a recurrent problem, and we hit it every
single time with each new machine, so I hope you can understand why I
decided to post, even though the original message appeared back in May.
Thank you for speaking up. Easier porting to new platforms is
certainly one of the reasons we keep that capability, and it's helpful
to have it directly confirmed that there *are* users out there that
benefit from it :)
If there is not currently a comment in the setup code explaining this,
perhaps it would be a good idea, lest some future developer be tempted
to delete the option.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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