Re: [Python-Dev] Update on Cygwin support (was: Clarifying Cygwin support in CPython)

2018-07-31 Thread Erik Bray
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 5:26 PM Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On 26 July 2018 at 02:13, Erik Bray wrote: > > I think a new approach that might be more practical for actually > > getting this platform re-supported, is to go ahead and add a CI build, > > and just skip all known failing test modules.

Re: [Python-Dev] Update on Cygwin support (was: Clarifying Cygwin support in CPython)

2018-07-30 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 26 July 2018 at 02:13, Erik Bray wrote: > I think a new approach that might be more practical for actually > getting this platform re-supported, is to go ahead and add a CI build, > and just skip all known failing test modules. This is what I've done > in a new PR to add a Cygwin build on

[Python-Dev] Update on Cygwin support (was: Clarifying Cygwin support in CPython)

2018-07-25 Thread Erik Bray
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:39 PM Erik Bray wrote: > > 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,