[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.3

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 16 Sep, 2009, at 14:52, Barry Warsaw wrote:

> On Sep 15, 2009, at 9:53 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>> The IDLE issue is IMHO a release blocker, as is issue 6851.
>
> So that leaves 4 release blockers for 2.6.3.  Three of these are  
> assigned to Ronald.  Ronald are you sure you will have time to fix  
> these by then?  The one I'm still uncertain on is the IDLE hang.  If  
> this only affects OS X 10.6 and there is no progress on it by the  
> time 2.6.3 is otherwise ready, I'm willing to knock this down in  
> severity.

I don't know for sure if I'll be able to fix these issues, I'll  
basicly just have time to work on this during the weekend.

* IDLE hang on OSX 10.6:   I don't really know where to start looking,  
this may have something to do with Tk-Cocoa (which is used on 10.6 and  
not on earlier releases). There is a patch for Tk-Cocoa support on the  
tracker, but I haven't had time yet to fully test that.

* Compile error for ctypes on 10.6: Should be easy to fix. Apple has  
released the sources of the copy of libffi included with 10.6.1, I'll  
use that to work on a patch.

* Crash with urllib and threads on OSX 10.6: This probably requires  
rewriting some code using ctypes in C. The crash seems to occur when  
CoreFoundation tries to initialise itself after being loaded on a  
secondairy thread by ctypes. To make matters worse the ctypes type  
annotations in urllib are not correct for 64-bit code (but the crash  
happens in 32-bit mode as well)

Ronald
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