Bill Janssen wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you can run a pure Python module
that does not depend on any C extension, then that platform has the
support needed to run Python.
This is certainly a point of view. One that many end-users wouldn't
understand :-).
Perhaps, but it's clear-cut. Is OS X not properly supported because it
can't run the _winreg module? I just don't like labeling a platform as
unsupported just because ctypes doesn't compile on it.
I assume _winreg runs everywhere Python is said to run, and there's a
Windows registry to examine, so I think it's a different kettle of
fish. ctypes doesn't run everywhere Python is said to run, and there
are dynamic libraries to call into.
I think it would be great if we could get some AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris
boxes for Thomas to work on. What would motivate IBM, H-P, and Sun to
donate such gear? Perhaps each of the companies have an office
somewhere that could help with this resource allocation? For
instance, talking to the "AIX Collaboration Center" of IBM
([EMAIL PROTECTED])?
And these are all SYSV derivatives, aren't they? So perhaps it's some
common fix for all three?
OK, I know people in Sun and possibly H-P I could ask, and I may have an
arm or two to twist to get to IBM. But worst-case, what budget would the
infrastructure committee need for the hardware and (more importantly) if
the hardware materialized, would there be manpower to maintain the
platforms as "Python supported"?
The more libraries that use ctypes to call into native functionality,
the more important it becomes to have ctypes run, even if only to
implement platform-specific functionality on the given platforms. I
would like "being able to call a wide range of native libraries" to be a
Python claim on all platforms, even when the native libraries are
platform-proprietary.
regards
Steve
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