Subject: Re: why python+pth?
To: Perry E.Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Marc Recht <recht@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/17/2003 23:42:08
--==========7908D601FE2B80C88146==========
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline

> Several packages (like bittorrent) seem to REQUIRE(!?) pth versions of
> python. Why is this? Aren't our native threads good enough?

There is a stack corruption on -current with native threads. Therefore=20
Python sometimes coredumps (eg. while processing regular expressions, or=20
cpickle). It works most cases, though.

--=20
Marc Recht
--==========7908D601FE2B80C88146==========
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (NetBSD)

iD8DBQE/uU7A7YQCetAaG3MRAow2AJ45tKEk4kIyW2R5i0GJTZqGnDaIdgCeOUQT
DEXFMiq+fnI/dpIPyyc1t/c=
=tGAB
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--==========7908D601FE2B80C88146==========--