Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > I have a few arguments in favor of my position: Hm, I said that people wanted a “feature-full library” but I was confused: We’re talking about a Python built for contributing, not to develop your app, so my argument does not apply. So, the devguide should list the optional build deps *and* say something like “these are not needed to run Python and its test suite, but you may need one them of for some patches”.
> (I've found and fixed several issues related to zlib because it was missing > here) I know :) I have a Python built without threads and run packaging and distutils tests with it from time to time, but it seems I can’t disable zlib at configure time. >> the addition of this message and further edits to its wording were done >> exactly to avoid people worrying that their python binary is not usable. > But it's still missing an "optional" before modules imho. What I meant is that the history of this messages says that you can just go ahead and add “optional”. > The second message that says to "look in setup.py in detect_modules()" > doesn't seem too > useful too (but maybe I should take a look ;). It is scary code. >> Okay; do we need to collect info for all major OSes > You can also do it incrementally Okay, I’ll make a patch. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13472> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
