Victor Stinner wrote:
Python contains code specific to OS/2 (eg. see Modules/posixmodule.c). I read
in Wikipedia that IBM has discontinued OS/2 support in 2005. Do we still
support OS/2 or not?
As was recently discussed, what constitutes "support" varies in perception.
Python's source contains support for it to be built on OS/2, but
python.org's normal build process doesn't deliver binaries.
OS/2 lives on as eCS. It is a second tier platform, akin to Cygwin
(which also has some source level support but is not part of the normal
python.org release process).
I'm asking because I'm working on a patch modifying OS2 specific code, but I'm
unable to compile nor test my changes. And on IRC we told me that nobody
knows/uses OS/2.
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If we support OS/2, we need a buildbot.
Build-bots for first tier platforms (Windows, Linux & OS/X) are useful
for the python.org developer community.
IMO build-bots for secondary platforms are the more the responsibility
of that platform's community on the basis of best management of
python.org resources.
I don't think anyone reasonable would expect patch suppliers to deal
with second tier platforms - I certainly don't. It is nice to get
heads-up messages about issues that might involve such support though,
and it shouldn't take much searching to find me to enquire.
My patch: http://bugs.python.org/issue8391 (os.execvpe() doesn't support
surrogates in env).
I'll look at it when I get a chance, but I'm not expecting that my input
should affect your patch and I'm not expecting you to try and deal with
the issue on OS/2. The 3.x branch needs quite a bit of work on OS/2 to
deal with Unicode, as OS/2 was one of the earlier OSes with full
multiple language support and IBM developed a unique API. I'm still
struggling to come to terms with this, partly because I myself don't
"need" it.
Regards,
Andrew.
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