On Wed May 14 2014 at 10:43:18 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> 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" :-)) > Very true, but these patches are all for e.g. configure to recognize a specific platform by listing them in some constant. Changing code to be more general I have no issue with since that's just good practice.
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