[Python-Dev] Hacking on the compiler in ways that break the frozen instance of importlib...

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 27 May 2012 10:13:17 +0200
martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
> > Nasty! Perhaps freeze_importlib.py could be rewritten in C, so
> > importlib could be recompiled when the compiler changes?
> 
> Or we support bootstrapping from the source file, e.g. with an
> environment variable BOOTSTRAP_PY which points to the _bootstrap.py
> source.

I've opened http://bugs.python.org/issue14928 and made it a release
blocker.

Regards

Antoine.