M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Note that I'm not saying that these switches are useless - of
> course they do allow to strip down the Python interpreter.
> I believe that only very few people are interested in having these
> options and it's fair enough to put the burden of maintaining these
> branches on
Jeff Rush wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>> I'd say that the parties interested in non-Unicode versions of
>> Python should maintain these branches of Python. Dito for other
>> stripped down versions.
>
> I understand where you're coming from but the embedded market I
> encounter tends to focus
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Note that this does not mean that we should forget about memory
>> consumption issues. It's just that if there's only marginal
>> interest in certain special builds of Python, I don't see the
>> requirement for the Python core developers to maintain
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> I'd say that the parties interested in non-Unicode versions of
> Python should maintain these branches of Python. Dito for other
> stripped down versions.
I understand where you're coming from but the embedded market I encounter
tends to focus on the hardware side. If the
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Note that this does not mean that we should forget about memory
> consumption issues. It's just that if there's only marginal
> interest in certain special builds of Python, I don't see the
> requirement for the Python core developers to maintain them.
Well, the cost of Unic
Jeff Rush wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> On 2/19/06, Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [Quoting Neal Norwitz]
>>
I've heard of a bunch of people using --disable-unicode. I'm not sure
if it's curiosity or if there are really production builds without
unicode. Ask this on
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 2/19/06, Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Quoting Neal Norwitz]
>
>>>I've heard of a bunch of people using --disable-unicode. I'm not sure
>>>if it's curiosity or if there are really production builds without
>>>unicode. Ask this on c.l.p too.
>>
> Do you know
On 2/19/06, Jeff Rush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Quoting Neal Norwitz]
> > I've heard of a bunch of people using --disable-unicode. I'm not sure
> > if it's curiosity or if there are really production builds without
> > unicode. Ask this on c.l.p too.
>
> Such a switch quite likely is useful to
Neal Norwitz wrote:
> On 2/17/06, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Neal Norwitz wrote:
> >
>>Another candidate for removal is the --disable-unicode
>>switch.
>>
>>We should probably add a deprecation warning for that in
>>Py 2.5 and then remove the hundreds of
>>#idef Py_USING_UNICODE
