[Python-Dev] Death to WITH_CYCLE_GC

[Michael Hudson]

"Tim Peters" <tim@zope.com> writes:

> [Tim Peters]
> > but since we never test without it the ability to compile it out
> > isn't much of "a feature".
> 
> [Martijn Faassen]
> > If the problem is you don't have time to test it,
> 
> That's not a problem for me.  In context, it was just one more reason why
> keeping WITH_CYCLE_GC has become a poor idea at best.
> 
> > what about talking to the Snake Farm people of the Python Business
> > Forum?
> >
> > http://www.lysator.liu.se/~sfarmer/
> >
> > They may be able and willing to help.
> 
> This would be a good idea for an "optional feature" somebody actually wants.
> For example, is HAVE_UNICODE actually turned off out in the world?

I build 3 debug builds (ucs2, ucs4 and without unicode) and run the
test suites every night on linux/x86.  test_unicode still fails in
ucs4 builds...

Cheers,
M.

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