[Python-Dev] cpython (3.1): #11515: fix several typos. Patch by Piotr Kasprzyk.

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/3/15 Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:
> On 3/15/2011 1:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:19:24 +0100
>> ezio.melotti<python-checkins at python.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>>   Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc/ffi_darwin.c
>>>   Modules/_ctypes/libffi_osx/powerpc/ppc-ffi_darwin.c
>>
>> libffi is a third-party library and you should probably not introduce
>> gratuitous changes in these files. It will make tracking changes with
>> upstream more tedious.
>
> This answers my question elsewhere of why revert real fixes. Perhaps the
> fixes could be submitted upstream.

It really doesn't matter if there's typos in 3rd party libraries which
we distribute.

>
> Is that status and the restriction on changes indicated in the file?

No, because that would make updating it annoying, too. :)



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Regards,
Benjamin