[Python-Dev] Re: Case-sensitive import

[Jason Tishler]

Tim,

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:36:45PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> I checked that patch in already, about 15 minutes after you uploaded it.  Is
> this service, or what?! <wink>

Yes!  Thanks again.

> [Guido]
> > That patch seems fine -- except that I'd like /F to have a quick look
> > since it changes _sre.c.
> 
> Too late and no need.  What Jason did to _sre.c is *undo* some Cygwin
> special-casing;

Not really -- I was trying to get rid of WIN32 #ifdefs.  My solution was
to attempt to reuse the DL_EXPORT macro.  Now I realize that I should
have done the following instead:

    #if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
    __declspec(dllexport)
    #endif


> /F will like that.

Apparently not.

> It's trivial anyway.

I thought so too.

> Jason, about this:
> 
>     However, using the next Cygwin gcc (i.e., 2.95.2-8 or later) will
>     require one to configure with:
> 
>         CC='gcc -mwin32' configure ...
> 
> How can we make that info *useful* to people?

I have posted to the Cygwin mailing list and C.L.P regarding my original
2.0 patches.  I have also continue to post to Cygwin regarding 2.1a1 and
2.1a2.  I intended to do likewise for 2.1b1, etc.

> The target audience for the
> Cygwin port probably doesn't search Python-Dev or the Python patches
> database.

Agreed -- the above was only offered to the curious Python-Dev person
and not for archival purposes.

> So it would be good if you thought about uploading an
> informational patch to README and Misc/NEWS briefly telling Cygwin folks what
> they need to know.  If you do, I'll look for it and check it in.

I will submit a patch to README to add a Cygwin section to "Platform
specific notes".  Unfortunately, I don't think that I can squeeze it in
by 2.1b1.  If not, then I will submit it for the next release (2.1b2 or 2.1
final).  I also don't mind waiting for the Cygwin gcc stuff to settle
down too.  I know...excuses, excuses...

Thanks,
Jason


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