[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

Guido van Rossum added the comment: [Copy of a post I just made to python-dev] I'm with Martin. In these days of distributed version control systems, I would think that the effort for the Haiku folks to maintain a branch of Python in their own version control would be minimal. It is likely that

[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: FWIW, I've launched a discussion on python-dev. If the OP is willing to maintain the deltas over a long period of time (and perhaps provide a buildbot for Haiku), then I fully support his effort. -- nosy: +rhettinger ___

[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Ok, I'm closing this patch as rejected. If the discussion on python-dev turns out that Haiku support should be added, then please create a new issue (with a patch for 2.7 - clearly, for 2.6, no new features can be added). -- resolution: -> rejected st

[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

Scott McCreary added the comment: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > >> I don't have any particular interest in BeOS variants, but this comes as >> a surprise given that http://python.org/about/ proclaims that "Python >> runs every

[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > I don't have any particular interest in BeOS variants, but this comes as > a surprise given that http://python.org/about/ proclaims that "Python > runs everywhere." > > Maybe Haiku could become a supported platform instead of more or less > defunct BeOS?

[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: > we decided some time ago to not accept patches for such minority > platforms anymore. I don't have any particular interest in BeOS variants, but this comes as a surprise given that http://python.org/about/ proclaims that "Python runs everywhere." Ma

[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > What is the purpose of this patch? I.e. why are you submitting it to > this bug tracker? > > "This patch adds preliminary support for Haiku." In case you were > wondering what Haiku was, it is the open source replacement for BeOS, > see haiku-os.org for more

[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

Scott McCreary added the comment: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:27 AM, STINNER Victor wrote: > > STINNER Victor added the comment: > > Python 2.5 branch is now frozen: only security fixes are accepted. You > should work on 2.6 or better on Python trunk for faster integration of > your patches ;-)

[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: What is the purpose of this patch? I.e. why are you submitting it to this bug tracker? -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker ___

[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

STINNER Victor added the comment: Python 2.5 branch is now frozen: only security fixes are accepted. You should work on 2.6 or better on Python trunk for faster integration of your patches ;-) Your patch looks good. -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python track

[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

New submission from Scott McCreary : This patch adds preliminary support for Haiku. We still have to hand tweak a few other files to get things to build. We have further patches to get python-2.5.4 to build, but it's failing some of the regression tests so we're leaving those parts out of this