[Python-Dev] Re: resource.setrlimit on OSX [was:Tests failing in MacPython 2.2.2] (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com
Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:41:51 +0200

On donderdag, oktober 10, 2002, at 09:27 , Skip Montanaro wrote:

Steve> Yes, that fix still works for me and No, I'm not running it as Steve> root, but I am still running 10.1.5, so if it's not working for Steve> you, maybe it's a 10.1 vs 10.2 problem. Alas, from what I've seen on the pythonmac-sig, this seems to be a common theme...

Don't worry: the recent flurry of discussion is all about MacPython, not about unix-Python. Forward compatibility from 10.1 to 10.2 for unix programs is pretty good, the only problem I've seen (runtime-wise, that is) is with programs using curses.

What is bothersome, though, is that you cannot easily create a program on 10.2 that is backwards compatible to 10.1. Now this is probably true on most Unix platforms, but Apple has all this wonderful versioning infrastructure for frameworks, and then they don't use it themselves:-(