On Wed, 14 May 2014 14:20:26 +0000 Brett Cannon <bcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Over the past week or so there have been 2 patches to add support for > various UNIX OSs. Now I thought we had stopped trying to add new esoteric > OSs (e.g. I had never heard of MirOS until the patch for it came in), but I > can't find a PEP that spells out what it takes to get a platform supported ( > http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/ is about removing platforms, > not keeping them or adding them unless you are re-adding one which > apparently just takes a volunteer).
OTOH you can fix a platform bug without officially supporting it. If someone files an OpenBSD-specific patch, it may make sense to commit it even without officially supporting OpenBSD. In practice it all depends on how intrusive / reasonable the patch is, and whether it is working around a platform-specific bug rather than a standards-compliant limitation. (we could call those "stochastically supported platforms" :-)) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
