[Slackbuilds-users] Possible typo in python3.SlackBuild

Jim Diamond Jim.Diamond at acadiau.ca
Sat Jan 10 15:14:09 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jan  9, 2015 at 20:45 (+0200), Audrius Kažukauskas wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 13:34:03 -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan  9, 2015 at 17:09 (+1000), Christoph Willing wrote:

>>> Its not stated there but I presume a blank offset defaults it to 0,
>>> therefore for a VERSION of 3.4.2, PYVER would be set to 3.4

>> That is fragile code.  If VERSION got as high as 3.10.x, Bad Things
>> would happen.

> Agreed, although very unlikely, according to one of Python
> developers[*]:

Also agreed.

Another problem with having fragile code is that it might propagate
itself into other Slackbuilds, which could (who knows?) end up with
that actually being a bug.

Cheers.

                                Jim


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