I think someone may have to mentor Xavier on how to get this accepted. The note already looks a bit like a PEP, but I suspect that Xavier is not sufficiently familiar with our process to realize the difference.
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Ned Deily <n...@python.org> wrote: > On Dec 10, 2017, at 16:26, Guido van Rossum <gvanros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2017 12:29, "Brett Cannon" <br...@python.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 at 06:19 Xavier de Gaye <xdeg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> The following note is a proposal to add the support of the Android > platform. > >>> [...] > >> While the note from a technical standpoint is interest, Xavier, I don't > quite see what needs to be done to support Android at this point. Are you > simply asking we add Android API 24 as an official platform? Or permission > to add your note to the Misc/ directory? Basically what are you wanting to > see happen? :) > > Maybe it should be a PEP? > > Yes, I agree there needs to be a PEP for this. I have conflicting > thoughts about formalizing Android support. On the one hand, it would be > nice to have. But on the other, it does add a large non-zero burden to all > core developers and to the release teams, to the minimum extent of trying > to make sure that all ongoing changes don't break platform support. At a > minimum a PEP needs to address the minimum platform support requirement > outlined in PEP 11 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#supporting- > platforms). As long as Xavier is willing to keep supporting the > platform, the first requirement, having a core developer, should be met. > But for a platform that, understandably, has as many special requirements > as Android does, the second requirement, having a stable buildbot, seems to > me to be an absolute necessity, and the PEP needs to address exactly what > sort of buildbot requirements make sense here: emulators, SDKs, etc. > Otherwise, we run the risk of ending up with an ongoing maintenance > headache and unhappy users, as has been the case in the past with support > for other platforms. > > -- > Ned Deily > n...@python.org -- [] > > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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