Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> added the comment: martin, hi, thanks for responding.
* graminit and configure were removed because they are built automatically. no project should ever include auto-generated files so i assumed that it would be reasonable to remove them from the python_2.5.2 "original" git commit that i did, in order to produce the diff. on a build, graminit got _replaced_ with one that had ^M after evvvvery siiingle line. so - if graminit and configure _are_ in the main python source tree, it's a serious mistake that should be rectified _immediately_. ... but i doubt that, and so graminit and configure "appearing" to be "removed" can be ignored. * regarding your comment that compiling python under msys under wine is a "minority platform", i believe that that is also a serious assumption. the reason why it's a minority platform is because... THERE WASN'T ANY CHOICE. i.e. msys and wine simply have not been good enough - and certainly not _demonstrated_ as being "good enough" - which this patch shows that they now most definitely are - to _have_ any choice about whether python should be compiled with purely free software tools. instead of depending on some xxxxing proprietary piece of double-xxxx operating system _and_ the development IDE it walked in on. sorry about that - just to emphasise how distasteful i find it to be _forced_ to use proprietary software, and i'm not the only person. basically, it should be pretty clear that now that python _can_ be compiled for win32 using an entirely free-software platform, the proprietary build chain should be absolutely dropped like a red-hot stone. ... but regarding "minority platform"? that's .... really quite funny and ironic. it was a _non-existent_ platform until about... yesterday :) _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4954> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
