[Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Fri Feb 10 13:39:11 CET 2012


In article <nad-734070.22132908022012 at news.gmane.org>,
 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> However, this may all be a moot point now as I've subsequently proposed 
> a patch to Distutils to smooth over the problem by checking for the case 
> of gcc-4.2 being required but not available and, if so, automatically 
> substituting clang instead.  (http://bugs.python.org/issue13590)   This 
> trades off a certain risk of using clang for extension modules against 
> the 100% certainty of users being unable to build extension modules.

And I've now committed the patch for 2.7.x and 3.2.x so I no longer 
consider this a release blocking issue for 2.7.3 and 3.2.3.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org



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