[Python-Dev] 2.3.5 schedule, and something I'd like to get in

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 5, 2005, at 16:15, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> Then you haven't done the appropriate research by searching 
>> pythonmac-sig.
>
> Hmm.
>
> > Do you even own a Mac?
>
> Do I have to, in order to understand the issues?
>
> But to answer your question: yes, I do.

Well, this issue has been discussed over and over again on 
pythonmac-sig over the past year or so (perhaps as far back as the 
10.3.0 release).  I do not have time at the moment to summarize, but 
the solution proposed is sane and there is no known better way.  If you 
take a look at the WWDC2004 sources for Python, a similar patch is 
applied by Apple.  However, Apple's patch breaks (at least) C++ 
compilation and SciPy's distutils extension for compiling Fortran due 
to distutils' stupidity.

-bob