[Moving to python-dev] I don't have a strong opinion. Any one else have an opinion about removing --with-wctype-functions from configure?
n -- On 2/16/06, M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > neal.norwitz wrote: > > Author: neal.norwitz > > Date: Thu Feb 16 06:25:37 2006 > > New Revision: 42396 > > > > Modified: > > peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt > > Log: > > MAL says this option should go away in bug report 874534: > > > > The reason for the removal is that the option causes > > semantical problems and makes Unicode work in non-standard > > ways on platforms that use locale-aware extensions to the > > wc-type functions. > > > > Since it wasn't previously announced, we can keep the option until 2.6 > > unless someone feels strong enough to rip it out. > > I've been wanting to rip this out for some time now, but > you're right: I forgot to add this to PEP 11, so let's > wait for another release. > > OTOH, this normally only affects system builders, so perhaps > we could do this a little faster, e.g. add a warning in the > first alpha and then rip it out with one of the last betas ?! > > > Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt > > > > + Name: Systems using --with-wctype-functions > > + Unsupported in: Python 2.6 > > + Code removed in: Python 2.6 _______________________________________________ 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
