[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.4rc1 (original) (raw)

Zvezdan Petkovic zvezdan at zope.com
Thu Oct 8 14:45:54 CEST 2009

On Oct 7, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

I want us to be very careful about 2.6.4. This isn't a normal bug fix release, it's specifically there to remove the brown paper bag of 2.6.3 from our heads. So let's be conservative and fix this one in 2.6.5.

Can we get the readline patch reviewed as well. It was applied to
trunk already: http://svn.python.org/view?view=rev&revision=74970

It's marked for backport to 2.6 as "needs review": http://bugs.python.org/issue6877

It fixes a BusError crash that was just swiped under a rug by
disabling the build in setup.py. :-)

FWIW, the part of the patch that changes setup.py will be useful for
another comparison of Mac OS X release numbers. The line 1362 on the
trunk (1364 on the 2.6 branch) compares strings and, unfortunately,
'10.' < '8.' for Darwin 10 (Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard):

if os.uname()[2] > '8.':

So, it should be changed to:

if os_release > 8:

where os_release is introduced by the patch mentioned above as:

os_release = int(os.uname()[2].split('.')[0])

on the line 550 on the trunk.

Regards,

Zvezdan

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