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

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Jan 3 20:49:09 CET 2006

On Jan 3, 2006, at 7:46 AM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

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.

Excuse me, but this really pisses me off. I delayed upgrading from 10.2 for awhile and was given the same "advice". I was further told (check the mac sig archives) that "you'd be able to stick with 10.3 for much longer" because new apps wouldn't need to require 10.4. So I upgraded. Now you're telling me that it's somehow "obsolete" and that I should upgrade because "we can't be bothered to fix a compiler warning"? Python supports much older versions of other platforms. What makes Mac OSX so special in this regard?

The compiler warning is harmless. It's probably about 10 lines of
code and an hour of testing to fix it, then you'd need to backport to
2.4, etc. Also, in order to do it properly you need to have access
to older versions of the OS in order to see the warning and test to
make sure you didn't break anything.

Who's going to bother? It's just not practical to fix something that
isn't broken.

The thing that makes Mac OS X "special" is that there don't seem to
be Python developers who are both knowledgeable and willing to make
sure everything works on all versions of the OS. Since you seem to
care, why don't you take up the task?

-bob

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