[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r42396 - peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 20:42:51 CET 2006


On 2/17/06, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> Neal Norwitz wrote:
> >
> > I don't have a strong opinion.  Any one else have an opinion about
> > removing --with-wctype-functions from configure?
>
> FWIW, I announced this plan in Dec 2004:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-December/050193.html
>
> I didn't get any replies back then, so assumed that no-one
> would object, but forgot to add this to the PEP 11.
>
> The reason I'd like to get this removed early rather than
> later is that some Linux distros happen to use the config
> switch causing the Python Unicode implementation on those
> distros to behave inconsistent with regular Python
> builds.

Like I said I don't have a strong opinion.  At least update PEP 11
now.  It would be good to ask on c.l.p.  I suspect that no one cares
enough about this flag to complain.  So it's probably ok to remove it.
 But we should at least give people the opportunity to object.

> Another candidate for removal is the --disable-unicode
> switch.
>
> We should probably add a deprecation warning for that in
> Py 2.5 and then remove the hundreds of
> #idef Py_USING_UNICODE
> from the source code in time for Py 2.6.

I've heard of a bunch of people using --disable-unicode.  I'm not sure
if it's curiosity or if there are really production builds without
unicode.  Ask this on c.l.p too.

We can update configure to add the warning and add a note to PEP 11. 
If we don't hear any complaints remove it for 2.6.  If there are
complaints, we can always back off.

n


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