Message 229808 - Python tracker

Message229808

Author	vstinner
Recipients	Arfrever, mark.dickinson, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date	2014-10-22.10:26:33
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Message-id	<1413973593.54.0.572755170799.issue22592@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> The patch LGTM but there is Borland C support in distutils As discussed on python-dev, it's fine to support more C compiler to compile extensions, than compilers supported to build Python itself. > there are several mentions in the documentation I did a quick check. It looks like "Borland" is usally mentionned to compile extensions, not to compile Python. > May be there are mentions in some build-support files. Which files?

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> The patch LGTM but there is Borland C support in distutils

As discussed on python-dev, it's fine to support more C compiler to compile extensions, than compilers supported to build Python itself.

> there are several mentions in the documentation

I did a quick check. It looks like "Borland" is usally mentionned to compile extensions, not to compile Python.

> May be there are mentions in some build-support files.

Which files?

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