On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 04:30:33AM +0000, Jay K wrote: > Hi. I have an Alpha/OSF machine up and running. > It is little slow, but it works ok. > > I would like to run Python3 on it. > > I have it "compiling and working". It was easy enough so far. > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/27063 > > Admitted, I haven't figured out what is happening with the posixsubprocess > module. > > Yes? No? Maybe? > > I can possibly provide ongoing "support" (I don't expect it will be much) and > a > buildbot (if really required), > if I can get it working a bit more, if this is approved, etc. I haven't looked
It is difficult to maintain support for less commonly used systems. If you maintain it personally (like using a cron) and look at the results over time, you could see the difficulty in maintaining the support. Personally, my vote is a -1 here. In the PR, another core-dev, Ronald had commented that support for explicitly removed a few years ago. -- Senthil _______________________________________________ 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/QQOYHF77AFRZZ3ZPYZDNIPBGC2AEE7HN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
