python with UCS4 as default, Was: Re: python.include setting?

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Tue Apr 9 13:11:18 PDT 2013


Hi,

On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 12:12:49PM -0700, Ned Deily wrote:
> The +ucs4 variant went away in Python 3.3.

That's good news to me :) One variability option less to worry about.

I've always wondered why MacPorts still offers the choice of using ucs2,
where the rest of the (distribution) world seems to have agreed on ucs4
(e.g. debian: [1]). Maybe we should finally make the switch and drop the
variant?

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~doko/python/pkg2.7-debian/view/head:/rules

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Clemens Lang



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