[Python-Dev] --disable-unicode, again
Michael Hudson
mwh@python.net
22 Nov 2002 10:37:49 +0000
"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@pythonware.com> writes:
> Michael Hudson wrote:
>
> > I think I've asked this before, but does anyone use this build?
> > Should I spend some time patching things up -- again -- or ripping
> > --disable-unicode support out. *I* don't care about it.
>
> you missed the third option: since you don't care, don't do anything.
That's what I'd been doing since it broke a couple of months back.
> isn't the idea that "the first one who really needs this has to fix it"?
Maybe, but having a configure option so conspicuously broken seemed a
bit embarrassing.
I also got tired of the failure reports from my cronjob every night --
got a couple of warnings last night, but it built.
> (adding a comment along those lines to the right place might be a
> good idea, though...)
Where is the right place? It had occurred to me to stencil "don't
forget the --disable-unicode build!" along the top of every Python
developer's monitor, but that didn't seem practical.
Cheers,
M.
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