Re: [patchv2] Fix Python 3 build error on 32-bit hosts

Paul_Koning
2015-02-04T21:06:15Z

> On Feb 4, 2015, at 2:20 PM, Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:58:18 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> I agree with Paul here. I think checking Python version is sufficient.
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> I should point out that version checking is error prone to distro backports.

That’s true in many cases. But here we’re dealing with a documented API difference, and the definition explicitly states that the change is associated with a particular Python version (core version, not distro).

paul