[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86264 - python/branches/release27-maint/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py (original) (raw)

Éric Araujo merwok at netwok.org
Sat Nov 6 17:26:50 CET 2010

I'm skeptical that this change should be carried out, then. Yes, I asked myself the same question. I had done the svnmerge from py3k, and when I saw that only one change was left, I wondered whether I should commit or revert.

It's easy to argue that this can't possibly hurt (but I can certainly come up with code that will break under that change); however, I fail to see what good it does. This was a private function used on an unsupported platform, this should do no harm. We’ve been bitten by “should do no harm” before though, so I am ready to revert this change (and learn from this :)

Regards

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