# HG changeset patch # User Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> # Date 1618243125 -7200 # Mon Apr 12 17:58:45 2021 +0200 # Node ID 4c7fdf5b610645efa5c4d968abc950057352e662 # Parent b19aa0f62e41b4331b01e9ca1e0a8afab6c57a0d bpo-43774: Remove --without-cycle-gc doc (GH-25364) The configure --without-cycle-gc option has been removed in Python 2.3 by the commit cccd1e72481106b0a373117f32fda6261f3141a7. It's now time to remove the last reference to it in the documentation. diff --git a/Doc/extending/extending.rst b/Doc/extending/extending.rst --- a/Doc/extending/extending.rst +++ b/Doc/extending/extending.rst @@ -911,12 +911,7 @@ The cycle detector is able to detect garbage cycles and can reclaim them. The :mod:`gc` module exposes a way to run the detector (the :func:`~gc.collect` function), as well as configuration -interfaces and the ability to disable the detector at runtime. The cycle -detector is considered an optional component; though it is included by default, -it can be disabled at build time using the :option:`!--without-cycle-gc` option -to the :program:`configure` script on Unix platforms (including Mac OS X). If -the cycle detector is disabled in this way, the :mod:`gc` module will not be -available. +interfaces and the ability to disable the detector at runtime. .. _refcountsinpython: