[C++-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] ATTENTION! Releasing Python 2.2.2 in a few weeks

[Guido van Rossum]

> > If you check out the release22-maint branch of Python from CVS and
> > subscribe to the python-checkins list
> > (http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-checkins) you should
> > be able to track the work leading up to 2.2.2 pretty closely.
> 
> Apparently the bug report
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=607253&group_id=5470
> 
> has not yet lead to any changes in the release22-maint branch. The
> worst problem are missing extern "C" in descrobject.h and iterobject.h.
> This is compounded by missing include guards. We struggled quite a bit
> to find a workaround for Boost.Python.

Please submit patches.  Not being a C++ user myself I find it hard to
guess exactly what needs to be done based upon your terse description.

> It will also be helpful if include guards are added to pymactoolbox.h.

I suppose you mean in the 2.2 branch?  Jack added them two weeks ago,
according to the bug report.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)