[issue19853] Add support for Bitrig to 2.7

Brett Cannon added the comment: The official requirements for OS support is outlined in https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#supporting-platforms which requires a core dev to step forward to maintain bitrig support as well as a buildbot running bitrig. Unfortunately neither has happened y

[issue19853] Add support for Bitrig to 2.7

Sevan added the comment: As discussed with Alex on IRC "if that's the case then OpenBSD should identify as NetBSD & DragonFlyBSD should identify as FreeBSD" ?? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue19853] Add support for Bitrig to 2.7

Alex Walters added the comment: The vast majority of the patch is adding || Defined('bitrig') after Defined('openbsd'). I don't know if that is an argument for or against, but on its face, its just working around an issue of an openbsd fork not identifying as openbsd. -- nosy: +triti

[issue19853] Add support for Bitrig to 2.7

Sevan added the comment: Is there any possibility this could be reconsidered, it's 2015 and Bitrig is still a thing under active development and the proposed patch set essentially adds Bitrig to the if statements where OpenBSD is already stated. This would of benefit for people working on 3rd

[issue19853] Add support for Bitrig to 2.7

Brett Cannon added the comment: To prevent lesser-used OSs from being poorly serviced by Python we do not accept patches to add support for them. We suggest alternative OSs keep their own set of patches external to Python for ease of updating. We have mirrors on both bitbucket and github if yo

[issue19853] Add support for Bitrig to 2.7

Changes by Martin Natano : -- title: Add support for Bitrig -> Add support for Bitrig to 2.7 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li