Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm
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Msg-id 10855.1217343408@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Am Tuesday, 29. July 2008 schrieb Greg Sabino Mullane:
>> What's not stable about having Python 2.5?

> I mean "stable" to mean "does not change (unnecessarily)".

I really don't understand Peter's objection here.  This thread has
already consumed more person-time than I spent on applying the
back-patch.  I note also that, in fact, the code that was wrong was
wrong according to pre-2.5 python as well.  It accidentally failed
to fail on common architectures, but it was certainly doing things
that are undefined according to the C standard.  So in my eyes this
was a bug fix. 
        regards, tom lane


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