[Python-Dev] Point of building without threads?

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/10/2013 8:54 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com> wrote:
>> Anyways, the point is that it's a recurrent problem, and we hit it every
>> single time with each new machine, so I hope you can understand why I
>> decided to post, even though the original message appeared back in May.
>
> Thank you for speaking up. Easier porting to new platforms is
> certainly one of the reasons we keep that capability, and it's helpful
> to have it directly confirmed that there *are* users out there that
> benefit from it :)

If there is not currently a comment in the setup code explaining this, 
perhaps it would be a good idea, lest some future developer be tempted 
to delete the option.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy