On 10-mrt-2006, at 23:25, Zachary Pincus wrote: >> If you come up with a patch for (2) against Python's svn trunk that >> is tested and works on 10.2 then I'll commit it. It's not >> appropriate to make this sort of change against Python 2.4, >> though. *Maybe* for the universal branch that Ronald and I are >> doing, because that's also unlikely to be merged with the 2.4 branch. > > Well, after wasting the better part of a day tracking down a computer > capable of running 10.2, installing 10.2 on it, getting the latest > updates and the newest 10.2 developer tools, I find that neither > python 2.5 from svn (today's snapshot or a checkout from the 8th) > *NOR* the svn snapshot of python 2.4 will build on 10.2.8. > > Is python 2.5 (or even 2.4) supposed to be officially supported for > 10.2? (It certainly doesn't seem to be based on what's on the python > web pages.) If not, I rather resent the goose chase I've been sent on > just trying to submit a patch to get python to work the way the > documentation says it does.
Do you know why it doesn't build? A patch to fix build problems would of course be appricated :-). I know of nobody that actively supports Python 2.4 or 2.5 on Jaguar, which means stuff will break. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
