[Python-Dev] cpython (2.7): - Issue #17086: Backport the patches from the 3.3 branch to cross-build (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Feb 6 22:08:39 CET 2013

On Feb 06, 2013, at 02:38 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Le Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:04:39 +0100, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> a écrit :

So what I do understand, build-related issues like an arm64 or mingw32 port are ok for 2.7, if they are stable on the trunk, and communicated on python-dev? Making Python build on a new platform is, AFAICT, considered a new feature, not a bugfix. For example, we support new MSVC versions in the main development branch, not in bugfix branches.

Except that 2.7 is an exception to that since it's the last of the Python 2 series, and has a much longer lifespan than normal releases. I'm pretty sure we agreed that there would be some exceptions for issues like new platforms for 2.7.

-Barry

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