remove --with-wctype-functions configure option

[amauryfa]

BPO	9210
Nosy	@malemburg, @birkenfeld, @amauryfa, @ezio-melotti, @merwok
Files	kill-wctype.patch: don't forget to regenerate "configure"

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[amauryfa]

Quoting Marc-Andre Lemburg:
"""
The support for the wctype functions should have been remove long ago,
since they cause subtle incompatibilities between Python builds. I should
have probably never added it in the first place... people were worried
about the size of the type record tables at the time, which is why
I thought it would be a good idea to try to optionally use the C lib
functions.

The comment was true before the Python type tables were changed
into a type record database: the switch used to remove the
Python tables required for those functions. With the type records
database, this is no longer the case, since the records are also
being used for properties that are not exposed via wctype functions.
"""

[amauryfa]

Patch attached.

[malemburg]

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> added the comment:

Patch attached.

Thanks. The patch looks good and I'd be +1 on applying it.

The only problem I see is that we may have to follow the deprecation
process.

OTOH, I've announce the plan in 2004 and confirmed it again in 2005:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-December/050193.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-April/052989.html

[birkenfeld]

I would say, go ahead and apply for 3.2.

[amauryfa]

Applied in r84752.