From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:06:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Give python a chance to find "backported" modules
Message-ID: <7vveytcmus.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0511160331150.15130@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> python 2.2.1 is perfectly capable of executing git-merge-recursive,
> provided that it finds heapq and sets. All you have to do is to steal
> heapq.py and sets.py from python 2.3 or newer, and drop them in your
> GIT_PYTHON_PATH. 

Fair enough.  But I do not think we would want to go further
than this.  Especially, shipping a copy of heapq and sets like
we did for subprocess.

Thanks anyway.