1 Jul
2001
1 Jul
'01
2:32 p.m.
This needn't go into the PEP, I think, but I'd like you to say something about what you expect the end result of this PEP to look like under Windows, where "rebuild" isn't really a valid option for most Python users. Are we simply committing to make two builds available? If so, what happens the next time we run into a situation like this?
I imagine that we will pick a choice (I expect it'll be UCS2) and make only that build available, until there are loud enough cries from folks who have a reasonable excuse not to have a copy of VCC around. Given that the rest of Windows uses 16-bit Unicode, I think we'll be able to get away with this for quite a while. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)