Nov. 7, 2009
9:36 p.m.
Please see also this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@python.org/msg42272.html This is a complementary proposal: that the Python devs should encourage the Linux distributors to converge on a common UCS2/4 choice. If the ABI improvement that you suggest is not adopted, then my proposal will help users. If the ABI improvement that you suggest is adopted, then my proposal will still help users. Likewise with the proposal to include the UCS2/4 configuration in the platform description on Linux: http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/ issue78 . If that proposal is not implemented, then my proposal will help users. If setuptools issue78 is implemented, then my proposal will still help users. Regards, Zooko