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Corinna,

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:13:15PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 28 08:41, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 04:27:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Thanks for the testcase.  This looks like a bug in the newlib
> > > function _wcsrtombs_r.  I'll send a bug report and a proposed fix
> > > upstream.  This will be fixed in Cygwin 1.7.
> > 
> > If you are going to release another Cygwin 1.5, would you be willing
> > to back port this fix?  Otherwise, Python 3.0 will not be able to
> > run under Cygwin 1.5.
> 
> Actually I didn't plan to release another 1.5.  There will always be
> some bug which could be fixed, but at some point before a new major
> release you simply have to draw a line.  What about just adding a
> Cygwin specific workaround in the 1.5 based Python 3.0 release?

This is one option -- possibly a difficult one.  Another option is to
only support Python 3.0 under Cygwin 1.7 and later.

Jason

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