[Python-Dev] suggest change to "Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules" message

Tue Dec 23 19:22:42 CET 2008

Done: http://bugs.python.org/issue4731
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 09:59, Mike Coleman <tutufan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was thrown by the "Failed to find the necessary bits to build these
>> modules" message at the end of newer Python builds, and thought that
>> this indicated that the Python executable itself was not built.
>> That's arguably stupidity on my part, but I wonder if others will not
>> trip on this, too.
>>>> Would it be possible to change this wording slightly, to something like
>>>> Python built, but failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules
>>>> ?
>> Sounds reasonable to me. Can you file a bug report at bugs.python.org,
> Mike, so this doesn't get lost?
>> -Brett
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