Update quirks doc to match current reality #625
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We configure ncurses with defaults for TERMINFO_DIRS that work on I can find (it works on Debian family, Red Hat family, NixOS, and Alpine), so we shouldn't phrase either the title or the body as if this is a problem that affects most people or setting the environment variable is a necessary thing in general. (Also I think even in cases where we don't have terminfo for your terminal, backspace usually still works, as evidenced by `TERM=potato python`). musl distributions are now dynamic binaries by default and dynamic loading works. The libcrypt transition is behind us. The python3-config file (since its first version, I think) knows how to correct the prefix in output. While it does contain hard-coded paths internally, it uses that for the purpose of fixing its output, so I don't think that fact is helpful to call out. python-build-standalone users who get it through uv are (hopefully) not affected by absolute paths in sysconfig; call this out explicitly for the benefit of people evaluting whether uv will work for them. Also mention sysconfigpatcher for everyone else. In general, tighten up the content.
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I keep forgetting that rST has no provision for putting a link inside bold text, and maybe the next thing I'll do is switch to Markdown in some fashion (MyST if necessary but I think we don't even need that). |
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We configure ncurses with defaults for TERMINFO_DIRS that work on I can find (it works on Debian family, Red Hat family, NixOS, and Alpine), so we shouldn't phrase either the title or the body as if this is a problem that affects most people or setting the environment variable is a necessary thing in general. (Also I think even in cases where we don't have terminfo for your terminal, backspace usually still works, as evidenced by
TERM=potato python).musl distributions are now dynamic binaries by default and dynamic loading works.
The libcrypt transition is behind us.
The python3-config file (since its first version, I think) knows how to correct the prefix in output. While it does contain hard-coded paths internally, it uses that for the purpose of fixing its output, so I don't think that fact is helpful to call out.
python-build-standalone users who get it through uv are (hopefully) not affected by absolute paths in sysconfig; call this out explicitly for the benefit of people evaluting whether uv will work for them. Also mention sysconfigpatcher for everyone else.
In general, tighten up the content.