This is just conjecture on my part, but having been elbow-deep in the Python 2.3.4 code, I don't think multi-platform was much of a concern for Python in the early days. When you don't have a multi-platform (in this case Multi-OS) architecture in place early-on, the code slowly becomes less and less maintainable because of all the conditionals the developers have to deal with.
I think this is pretty much the problem Brad dealt with when he attempted to put his Python 1.5 port into the mainline. With a lot of MACROS going in, the Mainline developers were reluctant to deal with it. That is one of the reasons why I went with a compatability layer to make PythonCE as close to Win32 Python as possible. David Rodrigo Contreras Köbrich wrote: > > I'm new to the list, but I'm paying a lot of attention to every message > and I must say that today the discussion got very spicy. > Can you explain a little what dealing with the "political issues of > getting integrated with the mainline development" means? > The Nokia implementation of Python is well known and I really can't > figure out why they don't have PPC in mind. > It seams that the term "political issues" is very inappropriate for an > open source project. > Who won't be glad to have a first-hand well documented version of pythonce? > > Rc. _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce