Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furus...@usit.uio.no> added the comment: Just for the record, I think you read this a bit too fast before closing:
Terry J. Reedy writes: > I am closing this as some combination of wrong, inapplicable, > out-of-date, and postponed. > > 1. (...) For bz2, there is "This module provides a > comprehensive interface for the bz2 compression library." If the library > is not there, then the module obviously cannot function. The point of the request was to move that error from runtime to compile time. As a configuration option, not by default, since as you say: > 2. I think the current default build process is right for most users. Indeed. > 4. This seems to have become pretty much a non-issue. The OP says he has > no further concrete interest because "It's been a while since I had a > computer without these libraries...". I am suspecting this is pretty > much true for everyone who might otherwise care enough to provide a > patch. Half right - actually I _would_ still prefer that bit of safety, but OTOH I probably won't be providing a patch anytime soon. (Still, I can always reopen the issue if I do write one.) ---------- title: "--require <feature>" option for configure/make (fail if building not possible) -> "--require <feature>" option for configure/make (fail if building not possible) _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue960325> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
