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

From Zdenek Kotala
Subject Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm
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Msg-id 488F6D27.1070906@sun.com
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In response to Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane napsal(a):
> 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. 

I see. if it is small patch and also fix other problems it seems to me as 
reasonable change.
    Zdenek


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Zdenek Kotala              Sun Microsystems
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