[Python-Dev] Unicode patches checked in (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:00:14 +0100

Christian Tismer wrote:

"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote: ... > Note that unicodedata is only needed by programs which do > a lot of Unicode manipulations and in the future probably > by some codecs too. Would it be possible to make the Unicode support configurable?

This is currently not planned as the Unicode integration touches many different parts of the interpreter to enhance string/Unicode integration... sorry.

Also, I'm not sure whether adding #ifdefs throuhgout the code would increase its elegance ;-)

My problem is that patches in the CVS are of different kinds. Some are error corrections and enhancements which I would definately like to use. Others are brand new features like the Unicode support. Absolutely great stuff! But this will most probably change a number of times again, and I think it is a bad idea when I include it into my Stackless distribution.

Why not ? All you have to do is rebuild the distribution every time you push a new version -- just like I did for the Unicode version before the CVS checkin was done.

I'd appreciate it very much if I could use the same CVS tree for testing new stuff, and to build my distribution, with new features switched off. Please :-)

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