On Sun, 2021-02-21 at 19:12 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: > On 21/02/2021 13.47, glaub...@debian.org wrote: > > Rust doesn't keep any user from building Rust for Tier 2 or Tier 3 > > platforms. There is no separate configure guard. All platforms that Rust > > can build for, are always enabled by default. No one in Rust keeps anyone > > from cross-compiling code for sparc64 or powerpcspe, for example. > > > > So if you want to copy Rust's mechanism, you should just leave it as is and > > not claim that users are being confused because "m68k" shows up in > > configure.ac. > > A --enable-unstable-platforms configure flag is my peace offer to meet > you half way. You get a simple way to enable builds on untested > platforms and we can clearly communicate that some OS and hardware > platforms are not supported.
Does that imply accepting non-intrusive patches for platform support, or at least not proactively removing it? -- Best regards, Michał Górny _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/XKEQUDQNSQ27IJI6IH755PZYNHOQGBSF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
