[Python-Dev] cpython (2.7): - Issue #17086: Backport the patches from the 3.3 branch to cross-build

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Wed, 6 Feb 2013 16:08:39 -0500,
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> a écrit :
> On Feb 06, 2013, at 02:38 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> >Le Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:04:39 +0100,
> >Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> a écrit :
> >> So what I do understand, build-related issues like an arm64 or
> >> mingw32 port are ok for 2.7, if they are stable on the trunk, and
> >> communicated on python-dev?
> >
> >Making Python build on a new platform is, AFAICT, considered a new
> >feature, not a bugfix. For example, we support new MSVC versions in
> >the main development branch, not in bugfix branches.
> 
> Except that 2.7 is an exception to that since it's the last of the
> Python 2 series, and has a much longer lifespan than normal
> releases.  I'm pretty sure we agreed that there would be some
> exceptions for issues like new platforms for 2.7.

Well, apparently we didn't make such an exception for MSVC :-)

Regards

Antoine.