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
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
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
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* defaul
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 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/pyt
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
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... t
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.
Regards,
Martin
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[Python used to always default to UCS2-Unicode builds;
this was changed to default to whatever a possibly installed
TCL system is using - hiding the choice from the user
and in effect removing the notion of having a Python
Unicode default configuration]
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg w
