[Python-Dev] cpython (2.7): - Issue #17086: Backport the patches from the 3.3 branch to cross-build

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 06, 2013, at 02:38 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>Le Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:04:39 +0100,
>Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> a écrit :
>> So what I do understand, build-related issues like an arm64 or
>> mingw32 port are ok for 2.7, if they are stable on the trunk, and
>> communicated on python-dev?
>
>Making Python build on a new platform is, AFAICT, considered a new
>feature, not a bugfix. For example, we support new MSVC versions in the
>main development branch, not in bugfix branches.

Except that 2.7 is an exception to that since it's the last of the Python 2
series, and has a much longer lifespan than normal releases.  I'm pretty sure
we agreed that there would be some exceptions for issues like new platforms
for 2.7.

-Barry