[Python-Dev] Unable to build regex module against Python 3.5 32-bit (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed May 27 10:10:30 CEST 2015

On 26 May 2015 23:25, "Paul Moore" <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 26 May 2015 at 13:55, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote: > The builds I am responsible for include it because someone reported an issue > and was persistent and helpful enough that I fixed it for them. > > That said, until MinGW agrees on a stable branch/version/fork, there seems > to be a good chance that the shipped lib won't work for some people. If this > is what's happened here, I see it as a good enough reason to stop shipping > the lib and to add instructions on generating it instead (the gendef/dlltool > dance). Agreed. If shipping it helps, then great. If it's going to cause bug reports, let's go back to the status quo of not having it. The instructions for generating it were in the old distutils docs, now removed in the cleanup / redirection to packaging.python.org. I'm inclined to just leave it undocumented - the people who need it know how to do it or can find it, whereas documenting the process implies a level of support that we're not yet really able to provide.

The old distutils docs aren't gone, the top level links just moved to the distutils package docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/distutils.html

I kept them (with the same deep link URLs) because I know there's stuff in there that isn't currently documented anywhere else. I moved them to a more obscure location because there's also stuff in there that's thoroughly outdated, and it's a non-trivial task to figure out which is which and move the still useful stuff to a more appropriate home :)

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