2017-12-10 15:19 GMT+01:00 Xavier de Gaye <xdeg...@gmail.com>: > Motivations > =========== > > * Android is ubiquitous. > * This would be the first platform supported by Python that is > cross-compiled, > thanks to many contributors. > * Although the Android operating system is linux, it is different from most > linux platforms, for example it does not use GNU libc and runs SELinux in > enforcing mode. Therefore supporting this platform would make Python more > robust and also would allow testing it on arm 64-bit processors. > * Python running on Android is also a handheld calculator, a successor of > the > slide rule and the `HP 41`_.
I still don't understand what is "Android". What is the license of Android? > * The Python test suite succeeds when run on Android emulators using > buildbot Great achievement! Congrats! I know that it has been a long travel to reach this point! (Fix each invidivual test failure, fix many tiny things.) > * Given the cpu resources required to run the test suite on the arm > emulators, > it may be difficult to find a contributed buildbot worker. So it remains > to > find the hardware to run these buildbots. Do you have the hardware to host such worker? Or are you looking for a host somewhere? Which kind of hardware are you looking for? CPU, memory, network bandwidth, etc. > *API 24* > * API 21 is the first version to provide usable support for wide > characters > and where SELinux is run in enforcing mode. Some people are looking for API 19 support. Would it be doable, or would it require too many changes? I know that people are running heavily patched Python 2.7 and 3.5 on Android with API 19. I'm not asking for a "full support" for API 19, but more if it would be possible to get a "best effort" level of support, like accept patches if someone writes them. > The following extension modules are disabled by adding them to the > ``*disabled*`` section of ``Modules/Setup``: > > * ``_uuid``, Android has no uuid/uuid.h header. > * ``grp`` some grp.h functions are not declared. > * ``_crypt``, Android does not have crypt.h. > * ``_ctypes`` on x86_64 where all long double tests fail (`bpo-32202`_) and > on > arm64 (see `bpo-32203`_). That's a very short list, it's ok. It's not the most popular modules of the stdlib :-) ctypes would be nice to have, but it can be done later. Victor _______________________________________________ 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
