[Python-Dev] buildbot

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:46 AM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

>     Bob> The easy fix is to upgrade your OS.  I don't think anyone  
> is going
>     Bob> to bother with the preprocessor hackery necessary to make  
> that
>     Bob> (harmless) warning go away on older versions of the OS.
>
> Excuse me, but this really pisses me off.  I delayed upgrading from  
> 10.2 for
> awhile and was given the same "advice".  I was further told (check  
> the mac
> sig archives) that "you'd be able to stick with 10.3 for much longer"
> because new apps wouldn't need to require 10.4.  So I upgraded.   
> Now you're
> telling me that it's somehow "obsolete" and that I should upgrade  
> because
> "we can't be bothered to fix a compiler warning"?  Python supports  
> much
> older versions of other platforms.  What makes Mac OSX so special  
> in this
> regard?

The compiler warning is harmless.  It's probably about 10 lines of  
code and an hour of testing to fix it, then you'd need to backport to  
2.4, etc.  Also, in order to do it properly you need to have access  
to older versions of the OS in order to see the warning and test to  
make sure you didn't break anything.

Who's going to bother?  It's just not practical to fix something that  
isn't broken.

The thing that makes Mac OS X "special" is that there don't seem to  
be Python developers who are both knowledgeable and willing to make  
sure everything works on all versions of the OS.  Since you seem to  
care, why don't you take up the task?

-bob