[Python-Dev] Bad python 2.5 build on OSX 10.8 mountain lion

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> In article <nad-B4E67A.00475902102012 at news.gmane.org>,
>  Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
>> In article <20121002073135.GA26567 at sleipnir.bytereef.org>,
>>  Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
>> > Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
>> > > > Forgot the link...
>> > > > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7885
>> > > > On Monday, October 1, 2012, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> > > > > As discussed here, the python 2.5 binary distributed by Apple on
>> > > > > mountain
>> > > > > lion is broken. Could someone file an official complaint?
>> > > I've filed a bug against 10.8 python2.5.   The 10.8 versions of Apple's
>> > > pythons are compile with clang and we did see some sign extension issues
>> > > with ctypes.  The 10.7 version of Apple's python2.5 is compiled with
>> > > llvm-gcc and handles 2**31 correctly.
>> > Yes, this looks like http://bugs.python.org/issue11149 .
>> Ah, right, thanks.  I've updated the Apple issue accordingly.
>
> Update: the bug I filed has been closed as a duplicate of #11932488
> which apparently at the moment is still open.  No other information is
> available.

Thanks Ned! Is there any way that I could see that bug myself and
attach myself to updates? Otherwise, can you keep us here appraised of
developments (even if Apple decides not to fix it)?

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)