On 07/08/2018 10:05 AM, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev wrote:
I'll use this opportunity to remind you that 3.4 build is broken -- it
can't be built from start to installer with the instructions given
because of outside factors (CPython has migrated from Hg to Git).
https://bugs.python.org/issue31623 about this was ignored (see
https://bugs.python.org/issue31623#msg303708 for supplemental fixes).
If this isn't something considered needing a fix, the claim that 3.4
is supported in any shape and form is but a pretense -- if something
can't be built, it can't be used.
By "3.4 build is broken", you mean that building the installer is broken
on Windows. Sadly the maintainer of that installer is no longer part of
the Python community, and as a Linux-only dev I have no way of testing
any proposed change.
More importantly, 3.4 is in security-fixes-only mode, which means that
changes that aren't security fixes won't be accepted. Fixing this would
not be a security fix. So even if the patch was clean and well-reviewed
and worked perfectly I'm simply not going to merge it into 3.4. The 3.4
tree is only going to be in security-fixes mode for another eight months
anyway, after which I will retire as 3.4 release manager, and 3.4 will
no longer be supported by the Python core development community at all.
As pointed out in that bpo issue: if the problem is entirely due to
switching from "git" to "hg", then you should have very little
difficulty working around that. You can use a git-to-hg bridge, or
create a local-only hg repo from the 3.4 tree. That should permit you
to build your own installers. I'm a little sad that the 3.4 Windows
installers no longer build directly out-of-tree without such a
workaround, but sometimes that's just what happens with a Python release
three major releases out of date languishing in security-fixes-only mode.
//arry/
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