[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.4rc1

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:42, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>wrote:

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> On 7 Oct, 2009, at 20:53, Brett Cannon wrote:
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> I just tried building out of svn and a ton of tests that rely on urllib
> failed because the _scproxy module wasn't built and it unconditionally
> imports it under darwin. Turns out that it requires the Mac toolbox glue to
> be built which I always skip since I don't care about it.
> I am fairly certain this toolbox glue dependency for urllib is a regression
> as I used to always be able to get networking working w/o the Mac-specific
> modules.
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> Bummer. _scproxy was introduced in 2.6.3 to fix a crash in the ctypes based
> code it replaces, as well as very vague failures in the same code on OSX
> 10.5 Server on PPC machines.
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> Luckily the fix is easy enough: move some code in setup.py from the block
> that checks for "not --disable-toolbox-glue", the _scproxy module has no
> dependencies on the toolbox glue.
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> The attached patch should fix the issue,
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>
Patch fixed it. Barry, can Ronald apply the patch?

-Brett



> Ronald
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> -Brett
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> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:18, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
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>> Hello everyone.
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>> The source tarballs and Windows installers for Python 2.6.4rc1 are now
>> available:
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>> http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.4/
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>> Please download them, install them, and try to use them with your projects
>> and environments.  Let us know if you encounter any problems with them.
>>  Hopefully we can avoid the situation with 2.6.3 having such critical bugs.
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>> 2.6.4 final is planned for 18-October.
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>> Cheers,
>> -Barry
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