[python-committers] Python 2.6.2

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 16, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> On 16 Apr, 2009, at 14:33, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>
>> On Apr 16, 2009, at 12:34 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>
>>>> I've merged this into release26-maint in r71639. But in order to  
>>>> update
>>>> Python2.6.2 binary, I think Martin's help is needed. Could you?
>>>
>>> I won't be re-releasing 2.6.2. We should make a 2.6.3 release  
>>> instead.
>>
>> Agreed.  If necessary, and when we resolve the problem, we can do a  
>> 2.6.3 release.  This can happen soon if the current situation is a  
>> problem for Windows users.
>
> Could "soon" at least be after this weekend?  We found a small  
> configure issue at PyCon that forces me to build the installers on  
> 10.4 and I'd like to fix that before a next release and don't have  
> time to seriously look into that before sunday.

Yes definitely.  I won't have time until next week at the earliest  
anyway.

> FWIW. The issue is that printf("%zd") works correctly on OSX 10.5,  
> but fails to print negative numbers correctly on 10.4. If you build  
> the installer on 10.4 the resulting binary works fine on all OSX  
> systems, if you build the installer on 10.5 the repr of  
> itertools.count(-1) is wrong on 10.4 systems.

Do you have an issue number for this?  Either way, please make sure  
there's a release blocker issue on 2.6 for this problem.

-Barry

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