[Python-Dev] Compiling without multithreading support -- still useful?

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Sep 7 06:24:15 EDT 2017


I've proposed a PEP 11 update in this PR:
https://github.com/python/peps/pull/394

Regards

Antoine.


On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:36:51 +0200
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It's 2017 and we are still allowing people to compile CPython without
> threads support.  It adds some complication in several places
> (including delicate parts of our internal C code) without a clear
> benefit.  Do people still need this?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Antoine.
> 
> 





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