2009/3/27 Collin Winter <coll...@gmail.com>: > In particular, Windows support is one of those things we'll need to > address on our end. LLVM's Windows support may be spotty, or there may > be other Windows issues we inadvertently introduce. None of the three > of us have Windows machines, nor do we particularly want to acquire > them :), and Windows support isn't going to be a big priority. If we > find that some of our patches have Windows issues, we will certainly > fix those before proposing their inclusion in CPython.
On the assumption (sorry, I've done little more than read the press releases so far) that you're starting from the CPython base and incrementally patching things, you currently have strong Windows support. It would be a shame if that got gradually chipped away through neglect, until it became a big job to reinstate it. If the Unladen Swallow team doesn't include any Windows developers, you're a bit stuck, I guess, but could you not at least have a Windows buildbot which keeps tabs on the current status? Then you might encourage interested Windows bystanders to check in occasionally and maybe offer fixes. As things stand, the press releases give me the impression (as a Windows user without a lot of time to invest in contributing) that this project is irrelevant to me, and I should ignore it until you announce "proper" Windows support. By which time, it may have fallen completely off my radar. (On a smaller scale, this happened with virtualenv - I found to my surprise that it now supported Windows, and had for some time without me realising, because when it started it was Unix-only and I had not bothered to keep track of it). Maybe again it's something that could be clarified in the announcements. Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
