Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 support?

2010-04-26 Thread Victor Stinner
Le samedi 17 avril 2010 05:19:36, Andrew MacIntyre a écrit : My patch: http://bugs.python.org/issue8391 (os.execvpe() doesn't support surrogates in env). I'll look at it when I get a chance, but I'm not expecting that my input should affect your patch and I'm not expecting you to try and

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 support?

2010-04-17 Thread Nick Coghlan
Victor Stinner wrote: If we support OS/2, we need a buildbot. As Andrew said, there are 2 levels of support - the if we break it, we'll fix it level where our buildbots live, and the we won't go out of our way to break it, but it may degenerate as other things change (or simply miss out on some

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 support?

2010-04-17 Thread Eric Smith
Andrew MacIntyre wrote: It is nice to get heads-up messages about issues that might involve such support though, and it shouldn't take much searching to find me to enquire. Especially since aimacintyre is listed in Misc/maintainers.rst. ___

[Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 support?

2010-04-16 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, Python contains code specific to OS/2 (eg. see Modules/posixmodule.c). I read in Wikipedia that IBM has discontinued OS/2 support in 2005. Do we still support OS/2 or not? I'm asking because I'm working on a patch modifying OS2 specific code, but I'm unable to compile nor test my changes.

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 support?

2010-04-16 Thread skip
Victor Do we still support OS/2 or not? Yes. Andrew MacIntyre maintains the OS/2 port: http://www.andymac.org/ He's on python-dev. You mostly see activity from him around release time. I would contact him directly if you need some assistance from him. Skip

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 support?

2010-04-16 Thread Andrew MacIntyre
Victor Stinner wrote: Python contains code specific to OS/2 (eg. see Modules/posixmodule.c). I read in Wikipedia that IBM has discontinued OS/2 support in 2005. Do we still support OS/2 or not? As was recently discussed, what constitutes support varies in perception. Python's source