[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.4rc1

Thu Oct 8 14:45:54 CEST 2009

On Oct 7, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I want us to be very careful about 2.6.4. This isn't a normal bug 
> fix release, it's specifically there to remove the brown paper bag 
> of 2.6.3 from our heads. So let's be conservative and fix this one 
> in 2.6.5.

Can we get the readline patch reviewed as well. It was applied to 
trunk already: http://svn.python.org/view?view=rev&revision=74970
It's marked for backport to 2.6 as "needs review":
http://bugs.python.org/issue6877
It fixes a BusError crash that was just swiped under a rug by 
disabling the build in setup.py. :-)
FWIW, the part of the patch that changes setup.py will be useful for 
another comparison of Mac OS X release numbers. The line 1362 on the 
trunk (1364 on the 2.6 branch) compares strings and, unfortunately, 
'10.' < '8.' for Darwin 10 (Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard):
	if os.uname()[2] > '8.':
So, it should be changed to:
	if os_release > 8:
where ``os_release`` is introduced by the patch mentioned above as:
	os_release = int(os.uname()[2].split('.')[0])
on the line 550 on the trunk.
Regards,
	Zvezdan