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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-09-02 23:01:43 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-09-02 23:01:43 (GMT)
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Clarify the Borland situation, based on email from Stephen.
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New platforms
-- Patches from Stephen Hansen for the Borland C compiler (under Windows)
- are reported to yield a clean compile, but a Python that doesn't yet
- run correctly. Volunteers?
+- Stephen Hansen contributed patches sufficient to get a clean compile
+ under Borland C (Windows), but he reports problems running it and ran
+ out of time to complete the port. Volunteers? Expect a MemoryError
+ when importing the types module; this is probably shallow, and
+ causing later failures too.
Tests