On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Jeff Sickel <j...@corpus-callosum.com> wrote: > Do you see this as a potential GSoC effort? The sans-ape version, > build based off CPython 2.7 or 3.x? There are more dependencies > than just Python, but if we did have this updated then there would be > more opportunity for people to experiment with a Plan 9 system.
I think a new port regardless of flavor would be much welcomed. Something based on 2.7 would be great for Mercurial, but I know there is a need elsewhere for a 3.x port. I have not looked into how much would work it would take to mitigate the apishness of a new port but it looks like others have (bummer). I suspect dropping openssl will be tricky but it would be quite worthwhile especially given Mercurial's penchant for https. Cheers, Steve
