On 21 Jun, 2010, at 22:25, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le lundi 21 juin 2010 à 21:13 +0100, Michael Foord a écrit : >> >> If OS X is a supported and important platform for Python then fixing all >> problems that it reveals (or being willing to) should definitely not be >> a pre-requisite of providing a buildbot (which is already a service to >> the Python developer community). Fixing bugs / failures revealed by >> Bill's buildbot is not fixing them "for Bill" it is fixing them for Python. > > I didn't say it was a prerequisite. I was merely pointing out that when > platform-specific bugs appear, people using the specific platform should > be helping if they want to actually encourage the fixing of these bugs. > > OS X is only "a supported and important platform" if we have dedicated > core developers diagnosing or even fixing issues for it (like we > obviously have for Windows and Linux). Otherwise, I don't think we have > any moral obligation to support it.
I look into and fix OSX issues, but do so in my spare time. This means it can take a while until I get around doing so. Ronald P.S. Please file bugs for issues on OSX and set the compontent to Macintosh instead of discussing them on python-dev. I don't read python-dev on a daily basis almost missed this thread.
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