M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
It is important to be able to rely on a default that
is used when no special options are given. The decision
to use UCS2 or UCS4 is much too important to be
left to a configure script.
Should the choice be a runtime decision? I think it should be. That
could mean two
On May 14, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
It is important to be able to rely on a default that
is used when no special options are given. The decision
to use UCS2 or UCS4 is much too important to be
left to a configure script.
Should the choice be a runtime
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
I'm not breaking anything, I'm just correcting the
way things have to be configured in an effort to
bring back the cross-platforma configure default.
Your proposed change will break the build of Python
on Redhat/Fedora systems.
I'm talking about the *configure* default,
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
I'm not breaking anything, I'm just correcting the
way things have to be configured in an effort to
bring back the cross-platforma configure default.
Your proposed change will break the build of Python
on Redhat/Fedora systems.
You know that this
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
I think we should remove the defaulting to whatever
TCL uses and instead warn the user about a possible
problem in case TCL is found and uses a Unicode
width which is incompatible with Python's choice.
-1.
Martin, please reconsider... the choice
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Martin, please reconsider... the choice is between:
The point is that this all was discussed, and decided the
other way 'round. There is no point in going back and forth
between the two choices:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-June/036461.html
If we remove
