On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:36 AM Chris Johns <ch...@lessthan3.org.uk> wrote:
> As someone who has ported Python 3 to another "less commonly used" > system (RISC OS) I just do semi-regular updates rather than trying to > keep it it totally up to date with "main". > > I have some vague recollection of there being talk about a "second tier" > of systems where there is at least a maintainer and build bot, but I'm > not sure what, it anything, came from that. > Nothing as of yet. People mentioned clarifying and cleaning up how we define platform support, but no one has taken the time to try and tackle that issue. -Brett > > Cheers > > Chris > > On 14/07/2021 15:44, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 04:30:33AM +0000, Jay K wrote: > >> Hi. I have an Alpha/OSF machine up and running. > >> It is little slow, but it works ok. > >> > >> I would like to run Python3 on it. > >> > >> I have it "compiling and working". It was easy enough so far. > >> https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/27063 > >> > >> Admitted, I haven't figured out what is happening with the > posixsubprocess > >> module. > >> > >> Yes? No? Maybe? > >> > >> I can possibly provide ongoing "support" (I don't expect it will be > much) and a > >> buildbot (if really required), > >> if I can get it working a bit more, if this is approved, etc. I haven't > looked > > It is difficult to maintain support for less commonly used systems. If > > you maintain it personally (like using a cron) and look at the results > > over time, you could see the difficulty in maintaining the support. > > > > Personally, my vote is a -1 here. In the PR, another core-dev, Ronald > > had commented that support for explicitly removed a few years ago. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/VSQD4TVVI42I5NMDZ4OE43ZAPJV5M66G/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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