[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r42396 - peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Fri Feb 17 14:39:46 CET 2006

Neal Norwitz wrote:

[Moving to python-dev]

I don't have a strong opinion. Any one else have an opinion about removing --with-wctype-functions from configure?

FWIW, I announced this plan in Dec 2004:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-December/050193.html

I didn't get any replies back then, so assumed that no-one would object, but forgot to add this to the PEP 11.

The reason I'd like to get this removed early rather than later is that some Linux distros happen to use the config switch causing the Python Unicode implementation on those distros to behave inconsistent with regular Python builds.

After all we've put a lot of effort into making sure that the Unicode implementation does work independently of the platform, even on platforms that don't have Unicode support at all.

Another candidate for removal is the --disable-unicode switch.

We should probably add a deprecation warning for that in Py 2.5 and then remove the hundreds of #idef Py_USING_UNICODE from the source code in time for Py 2.6.

n --

On 2/16/06, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote: neal.norwitz wrote:

Author: neal.norwitz Date: Thu Feb 16 06:25:37 2006 New Revision: 42396

Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt Log: MAL says this option should go away in bug report 874534: The reason for the removal is that the option causes semantical problems and makes Unicode work in non-standard ways on platforms that use locale-aware extensions to the wc-type functions. Since it wasn't previously announced, we can keep the option until 2.6 unless someone feels strong enough to rip it out. I've been wanting to rip this out for some time now, but you're right: I forgot to add this to PEP 11, so let's wait for another release. OTOH, this normally only affects system builders, so perhaps we could do this a little faster, e.g. add a warning in the first alpha and then rip it out with one of the last betas ?! Modified: peps/trunk/pep-0011.txt + Name: Systems using --with-wctype-functions + Unsupported in: Python 2.6 + Code removed in: Python 2.6

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