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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Build log locales
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 19:26:54
Message-Id: 20993.19958.647600.539191@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Build log locales by Mike Gilbert
1 >>>>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2
3 > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
4 > wrote:
5 >>>>>>> On Tue, 6 Aug 2013, Andreas K Huettel wrote:
6 >>> [...] I consider any build system that fails depending on locale
7 >>> as br0ken and in need of fixing.
8 >>
9 >> +1
10
11 > You are welcome to waste your time fixing python setup.py files and
12 > unit tests that are broken unless you have a UTF-8 locale set. I
13 > think there are better uses of our time.
14
15 I'm aware of the Python situation. It is a sad state of affairs,
16 though.
17
18 Ulrich