On 07/08/2018 10:05 AM, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev wrote: > > I'll use this opportunity to remind you that 3.4 build is broken -- it > can't be built from start to installer with the instructions given > because of outside factors (CPython has migrated from Hg to Git). > https://bugs.python.org/issue31623 about this was ignored (see > https://bugs.python.org/issue31623#msg303708 for supplemental fixes). > > If this isn't something considered needing a fix, the claim that 3.4 > is supported in any shape and form is but a pretense -- if something > can't be built, it can't be used. > By "3.4 build is broken", you mean that building the installer is broken on Windows. Sadly the maintainer of that installer is no longer part of the Python community, and as a Linux-only dev I have no way of testing any proposed change. More importantly, 3.4 is in security-fixes-only mode, which means that changes that aren't security fixes won't be accepted. Fixing this would not be a security fix. So even if the patch was clean and well-reviewed and worked perfectly I'm simply not going to merge it into 3.4. The 3.4 tree is only going to be in security-fixes mode for another eight months anyway, after which I will retire as 3.4 release manager, and 3.4 will no longer be supported by the Python core development community at all. As pointed out in that bpo issue: if the problem is entirely due to switching from "git" to "hg", then you should have very little difficulty working around that. You can use a git-to-hg bridge, or create a local-only hg repo from the 3.4 tree. That should permit you to build your own installers. I'm a little sad that the 3.4 Windows installers no longer build directly out-of-tree without such a workaround, but sometimes that's just what happens with a Python release three major releases out of date languishing in security-fixes-only mode. //arry/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20180708/d633274b/attachment.html>
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