Subject: Re: bug#53642: [PATCH] gnu: oil: Update to 0.9.7.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 10:55:24 +0100

Hi,

Felix Gruber <[email-masked]> skribis:

> It seems that the CPython bundled with oil is heavily modified.
> I've found this old blog post [1] that describes what was modified in
> the bundled CPython. Apparently, those parts of CPython that are not 
> used by oil have been removed and the build system has been replaced
> by a custom one. This will probably make it quite complicated to
> replace the bundled CPython with ours.
>
> [1] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/05/05.html

Makes sense.  Perhaps we can add a comment explaining this, for our
future selves wondering about it.

Thanks for exlaining,
Ludo’.