Victor Stinner
Victor Stinner
> Given that no-symlinks (i.e. “developer mode” disabled) is the default on Widows, we should probably have a dedicated builder for it. Strange, I don't recall that I changed this...
> How did you install the VM? Is it a development image? Hum, I don't recall. Maybe yes, maybe no. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/get-started/enable-your-device-for-development says: > However, if you're writing software with Visual...
> Well, AMD64 Windows11 Refleaks caught the issue, so it must be possible somehow :) Oh. That's even more interesting.
I wrote https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/114121 to log the Windows Developer Mode in test.pythoninfo. From what I saw, os.symlink() is allowed if the user is running with Administrator rights or if the Developer...
> I checked again my Windows 11 VM: in fact, the Developer Mode was disabled, and os.symlink() was disallowed. Moreover, can_symlink() of test.support.os_helper returns False as expected. If I enable...
cc @pablogsal @zware @ambv
Oh, it also seems like when a new branch (like 3.9) is created, we don't get all pre-commit CIs by default: see https://github.com/python/core-workflow/issues/369
> As far as I can tell, the original two points @vstinner listed above are as of now at least mentioned in the PEP Good. I consider that the issue...
I looked at the PEPs that I wrote or co-authored. In fact, I never added a Post-History header, I didn't know that it was required, "make" and CIs never complained....
Ok, let's continue with Post-History.