Re: [Python-Dev] Clarifying Cygwin support in CPython

2017-11-09 Thread Erik Bray
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Zachary Ware wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Erik Bray wrote: >> a platform--in particular it's not clear when a buildbot is considered >> "stable", or how to achieve that without getting necessary fixes >> merged into the main branch in the first place. >

Re: [Python-Dev] Clarifying Cygwin support in CPython

2017-11-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 9 November 2017 at 02:28, Zachary Ware wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Erik Bray wrote: >> a platform--in particular it's not clear when a buildbot is considered >> "stable", or how to achieve that without getting necessary fixes >> merged into the main branch in the first place. > >

Re: [Python-Dev] Clarifying Cygwin support in CPython

2017-11-08 Thread Zachary Ware
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Erik Bray wrote: > a platform--in particular it's not clear when a buildbot is considered > "stable", or how to achieve that without getting necessary fixes > merged into the main branch in the first place. I think in this context, "stable" just means "keeps a conn

[Python-Dev] Clarifying Cygwin support in CPython

2017-11-08 Thread Erik Bray
Hi folks, As some people here know I've been working off and on for a while to improve CPython's support of Cygwin. I'm motivated in part by a need to have software working on Python 3.x on Cygwin for the foreseeable future, preferably with minimal graft. (As an incidental side-effect Python's t