Could someone with access to a SPARC machine (perhaps with a modern version of Debian-sparc) grab a clone from http://hg.python.org/cpython/ and run the test suite?
I'd invoke the "scratch your own itch" principle here. SPARC, these days, is a "minority platform"; I wouldn't mind deleting all SPARC support from Python in some upcoming release. In no way I feel obliged
to take efforts that Python 3.3 works on SPARC (and remember that it was me who donated the first buildbot slave, and that was a SPARC machine - which I now had to take down, ten years later). Of course, when somebody has access to SPARC hardware, *and* they have some interest that Python 3.3 works on it, they should test it. But testing it as a favor to the community is IMO irrelevant now; that particular community is shrinking rapidly. What I personally really never cared about is SparcLinux; if sparc, then it ought to be Solaris. IOW: if it breaks, no big deal. Someone may or may not contribute a patch. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
