On 01/27/2015 08:26 AM, Fetchinson . wrote: > First of all thanks a lot for creating this mailing list. I sent the > original mail to python-ideas [1] referenced by Jeff on meta-sig [2]. > My perspective is that of a developer of python programs (mostly hobby > projects) and not developer of python itself. > > What I'd like to see is a python distribution for android (I'm aware > of the fact that this is mobile-sig and not android-sig, but for me > personally android matters a lot more than other mobile platforms) > that is as reliable as the linux/macos/windows distributions released > by the python core dev team. Ideally, each time a new python version > is released not only linux/macos/windows installers should be > available on python.org but also android probably in the form of an > installable apk. And just as there are platform specific features for > e.g. windows that are not available on linux, there of course would be > android-only features in the android distribution like hardware > related libraries like camera, gps, accelerator, etc. sensors and > probably more. > > Currently there is no single officially blessed (i.e. psf blessed) > python distribution for android. There are various approaches, kivy > [3], sl4a [4] and more [5]. But these are either dead projects or > accomplish much more than a vanilla python distribution. What I'd like > to see is an environment whose goal is to be "just" the python core > plus about as much platform specific feature as there are for the > others, linux/macos/windows. > > Of course the whole enterprise depends on the willingness of core > python dev folks to dedicate time and energy to maintaining a code > base that one can compile for android also which is not a small feat. > I'm not sure they have this time and energy and I of course wouldn't > blame them, this is open source, people do it in their free time. > > I merely would like to gauge the community's interest in something > like this. Maybe if many users show interest then the core python dev > folks can be convinced that this would be a worthy effort.
PEP 11 [1] has been updated to clarify what is need to officially support a platform: First, a core developer [2] needs to volunteer to maintain platform-specific code. Second, a stable buildbot must be provided. I volunteer to maintain the android specific code (I have zero qualifications to help with any other mobile platform), and I am working on providing a stable buildbot for the android platform. Cyd has successfully built 3.4.2 in a KBOX environment on his android device, and is working on making the patches accessible (thanks, Cyd!) While Cyd's efforts are an important first step, I think many users are not going to want to install KBOX to get Python, so what are the other options? -- ~Ethan~ [1] http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/ [2] if one just wants to contribute patches now and again, the CLA [3] will need to be signed [3] https://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/
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