On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 8:26 AM Sebastian Wiedenroth <wi...@frubar.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've already commented on the issue, but want to make a few more points > here as well. > > Removing Solaris support would not only impact Oracle Solaris but the open > source illumos community as well. > Both systems share the "SunOS" uname for historical reasons. Removing > support would be a disaster for us. > > We are a small community compared to Linux, but there are illumos > distributions (OpenIndiana, OmniOS, SmartOS, Tribblix, ...) that have many > python users. > It's also an essential part of our tooling and package management. > > I've offered to host an illumos buildbot before but it was not accepted > because not all tests passed at that time. > There is active work going on to get this debugged and fixed. > If it is acceptable to skip some tests we can have the buildbot online > tomorrow. > FWIW making a PR that adds platform specific test skips or expected failure decorators is a good way to start bringing up new buildbots. It serves as effective documentation of what does and doesn't work that lives directly in the codebase, in a way that can be evolved over time as more is made to work. -gps On the ticket many users and developers have offered to step up, myself > included. > In our IRC channel we also had some discussions yesterday and we're hoping > to bring more patches upstream soon. > > If there is interest in ssh access to illumos systems that is also > something I can offer. > > Please let us know if there is more we need to do to keep python on > illumos supported. > > Best regards, > Sebastian > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/UL4MQAKQZOIEEA2DHNJNB4BB4J3QR7FY/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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