Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:03 PM, scott mc wrote: > I built 2.7 on Haiku, but am getting failures in the regression tests. > Many of them are in math related tests, failing in the 15th decimal > place on test_decimal and a few others like that, I posted a ticket on > Haiku's trac for that as it m

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-18 Thread scott mc
The config.guess/.sub files in python/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/libffi are from , which is just before Haiku was finally added to the offical versions from gnulib. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD and http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I don't see such a commitment in this case, but if a > believable one comes up I'm sure Martin would happily revert his > position. Indeed. I have myself added support for AtheOS, even though I had never used the system. The AtheOS maintainer ran away, the code rotted, and eventually get ripped

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20090115 16:53], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: >>Did you look at the patch they submitted? http://bugs.python.org/issue4933 > > I did now (python-2.5.4-haiku-2.diff). I am not sure what you are implying > tho

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090115 16:53], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: >Did you look at the patch they submitted? http://bugs.python.org/issue4933 I did now (python-2.5.4-haiku-2.diff). I am not sure what you are implying though, Guido. It doesn't look like a huge change and most of it is close to 'one

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > actively working on POSIX compliance. My only guess right now is that this > work is largely complete. In effect that would mean that Python would work > out of the box, more or less. So the cost of adding and maintaining it in This is very interesting to kno

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > -On [20090115 01:11], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: >>I'm with Martin. In these days of distributed version control systems, >>I would think that the effort for the Haiku folks to maintain a branch >>of Python in

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090115 01:11], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: >I'm with Martin. In these days of distributed version control systems, >I would think that the effort for the Haiku folks to maintain a branch >of Python in their own version control would be minimal. It is likely >that for each new

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-14 Thread scott mc
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I'm with Martin. In these days of distributed version control systems, > I would think that the effort for the Haiku folks to maintain a branch > of Python in their own version control would be minimal. It is likely > that for each new Pyt

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-14 Thread Guido van Rossum
I'm with Martin. In these days of distributed version control systems, I would think that the effort for the Haiku folks to maintain a branch of Python in their own version control would be minimal. It is likely that for each new Python version that comes out, initially it is broken on Haiku, and t

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-14 Thread skip
Raymond> The theory is that we don't want to support minority operation Raymond> systems. My view is that we should support those systems to Raymond> the extent that someone like the OP is willing to maintain the Raymond> handful of deltas needed to get all tests to pass (the OP's