Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Jean-Yves, please understand that no amount of discussion can likely change Guido's or my view on this patch. We both fully understand the relevance of OS/390, and *still* reject it, for the reasons discussed.
Besides, integration into 2.5.1 is not possible, as it would violate our maintenance policy of not integrating new features into bug fix (2.x.y) releases. Integrating it into 2.6 might be possibly technically, but could be a waste of time since 2.x will shortly (i.e. within a few years) reach the end of its life. I doubt that the patch as it stands will work correctly on 3.x (as *that* stands). As you seem to be proposing that supporting EBCDIC will be "easy", just try to port the patch to 3.x to see how this assumption is wrong. In Python 3.x, Python source code *cannot* be interpreted as EBCDIC, without an encoding declaration, since the language specification says that the source code is UTF-8; there is no room for platform-specific derivations from that default. Also consider Guido's discussion of the networking code; unless you can report that httplib and ftplib work correctly, I doubt that the port is really complete. So I think the only choice is to maintain this port outside of the Python source tree, for a few more years. If you plan to contribute it again to the Python core some day, please keep track of all the individual contributors, as we will then require copyright agreements from everyone. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1298> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
