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Martin von Loewis wrote [\n\ -> \n" conversion] Did these actually fix anything? So I guess the answer is: "yes, it makes Tim's editor happy" :-) Apart from that, it apparently didn't fix any further problems.

Fair nuff. I'm not completely up on the various intricacies of various bizarro C compilers so I thought I'd check.

Indeed. Furthermore, applications (including distutils) may rely on knowing the name of the config.h; those would break with the change.

Excellent point.

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[zlib fix] I don't think this qualifies as a "bug fix". It fixes a problem, yes, but applications have to be changed to make use of the feature.

And unlike the sendall() fix, there's no sections of the std library triggering the bug.

Why can't you use the patch as-is? It would apply without problems, if generation0 hadn't been renamed to _PyGC_generation0.

Minor additional tweaks (making stuff global), but this is now in.

If "didn't build before, does now" also is a candidate for inclusion, I think you could more or less use _cursesmodule.c as-is. If you only want fixes for systems on which it already worked, it will be more difficult.

This issue is one of "not stopping it building where it did before..." I'm just going to wander through it and check for nasties... Anthony