Python 2.7.7

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 17/06/2014 9:22 PM, Marcus von Appen wrote:
> Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu at freebsd.org>:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Is there an ETA for updating the python27 port to 2.7.7?
>>
>> I just made a patch for updating python27:
>>
>>   https://people.freebsd.org/~lwhsu/patch/python-2.7.7.diff
> 
> lang/python27/files/patch-Lib__distutils__unixccompiler.py should be kept.
> http://bugs.python.org/issue20767 has not been closed yet and the 2.7.7
> source
> code does not incorporate the change nor does the NEWS file indicate
> anything related
> to the issue.
> 
> I'm also unsure about the fcntl.ioctl() patch change. The 2.7.6 patch
> used an
> unsigned long on purpose, since we are not limited to 32 bit. The 2.7.7
> patch however
> seems to revert this behaviour, limiting ioctl() to 32 bit, which will
> most likely
> have an impact on ports using ioctl(). I can't find a related python
> issue - did we
> ever report our change upstream?
> 
> Cheers
> Marcus
> 
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I don't recall coming across one, but I could be wrong.

If I understood the change (and its background/context), I'd upstream it
in a heartbeat given its simplicity.

Is the change conditional on FreeBSD? What might be required to get it
upstream ready?

koobs