[Python-Dev] buildbot (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Jan 3 17:27:43 CET 2006

"skip" == skip <skip at pobox.com> writes:

Bob> The easy fix is to upgrade your OS.  I don't think anyone is going
Bob> to bother with the preprocessor hackery necessary to make that
Bob> (harmless) warning go away on older versions of the OS.

skip> Excuse me, but this really pisses me off.

Oh, c'mon, Skip. I'm a Panther hold-out, too, but this is just a (soi-disant harmless) warning. Have you tried to build anything from DarwinPorts recently? I have at least 20 modified PortFiles plus at least two patched source files because they can't be bothered to make sure things build on Panther, let alone eliminate warnings.

Sure, Python can be expected to do much better than random port maintainers, but.... Discussions with the port maintainers makes it hard to blame them. They say the development environment has changed enormously---you really need multiple systems because of significant changes in the standard headers, it's nowhere near enough to just keep a couple or six versions of GCC around. And you need multiple dev environments, because Xcode 1.5 doesn't cut it on Tiger, and Xcode 2.x doesn't work at all on Panther.

Yes, it would be nice to make the warnings go away, but in view of all that, is it something to get one's shorts in a knot about?

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