[Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, release candidate 1

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:48 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>>> But it would be really nice if the configure fix for 2.5 was
>>> backported to 2.4.5 since Zope is still on 2.4 and Mac OS X skipped
>>> system builds for 2.4 going direct from 2.3 -> 2.5.
>>
>>
>> Yes, it would be very nice if this worked out of the box on Mac OS X
>> 10.5.2.  It's definitely a surprise for those of us who built our  
>> 2.4.4
>> on Mac OS X 10.4.x.
>
> I can put a notice in the release notes, but I definitely won't change
> it to work out of the box. If 2.4.4 compiled out of the box on this  
> box,
> it would have been a regression and would have to be fixed. IIUC,  
> 2.4.4
> won't compile on 10.5, either, and Python 2.4.5 will have no code to
> port it to new platforms.

Can you also add a note to the 2.3 and 2.4 web pages?

- -Barry

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