Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Tue May 8 08:49:14 CEST 2012

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On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> I guess a long time ago, threading support in operating systems wasn't
> very widespread, but these days all our supported platforms have it.
> Is it still useful for production purposes to configure
> --without-threads? Do people use this option for something else than
> curiosity of mind?

Gentoo (of course) allows users to build Python without threads; I'm
not aware of anyone depending on that, but I sent out a quick question
to gentoo-dev.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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