[Python-Dev] should I really have to install Python before Ican build it ?

[Brett Cannon]

On 12/12/05, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 20:43 +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > Jeremy Hylton wrote:
> >
> > > The C files are checked into subversion.  Perhaps there is some
> > > problem with the timestamps that causes the Makefile to try to rebuild
> > > them anyway?  I have a modern Python and I've been doing a fair amount
> > > of development on these files; as a result, I haven't noticed a
> > > problem.
> >
> > ah, of course.  subversion sets the timestamp to the checkout time for each
> > file, so things may or may not work after a fresh checkout.
> You can change this by setting use-commit-times=true in
> ~/.subversion/config

What do other people think of this option?  Sounds reasonable to me. 
if people like it I will add this to the suggested config options
specified in the dev FAQ.

-Brett