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[PATCH] gnu: oil: Update to 0.9.7.

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Message #16 received at 53642-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Felix Gruber <felgru <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 53642-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53642: [PATCH] gnu: oil: Update to 0.9.7.
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 10:55:24 +0100

Hi,

Felix Gruber <felgru <at> posteo.net> 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’.

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