Corinna, On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:13:15PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 28 08:41, Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:27:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Thanks for the testcase. This looks like a bug in the newlib > > > function _wcsrtombs_r. I'll send a bug report and a proposed fix > > > upstream. This will be fixed in Cygwin 1.7. > > > > If you are going to release another Cygwin 1.5, would you be willing > > to back port this fix? Otherwise, Python 3.0 will not be able to > > run under Cygwin 1.5. > > Actually I didn't plan to release another 1.5. There will always be > some bug which could be fixed, but at some point before a new major > release you simply have to draw a line. What about just adding a > Cygwin specific workaround in the 1.5 based Python 3.0 release?
This is one option -- possibly a difficult one. Another option is to only support Python 3.0 under Cygwin 1.7 and later. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
