Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:03 PM, scott mc scott...@gmail.com wrote: I built 2.7 on Haiku, but am getting failures in the regression tests. Many of them are in math related tests, failing in the 15th decimal place on test_decimal and a few others like that, I posted a ticket on Haiku's trac

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-18 Thread scott mc
The config.guess/.sub files in python/trunk/Modules/_ctypes/libffi are from , which is just before Haiku was finally added to the offical versions from gnulib. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD and

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090115 01:11], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: 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 for each new

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmo...@in-nomine.org wrote: -On [20090115 01:11], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: actively working on POSIX compliance. My only guess right now is that this work is largely complete. In effect that would mean that Python would work out of the box, more or less. So the cost of adding and maintaining it in This is very interesting to know.

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20090115 16:53], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: Did you look at the patch they submitted? http://bugs.python.org/issue4933 I did now (python-2.5.4-haiku-2.diff). I am not sure what you are implying though, Guido. It doesn't look like a huge change and most of it is close to 'one

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmo...@in-nomine.org wrote: -On [20090115 16:53], Guido van Rossum (gu...@python.org) wrote: Did you look at the patch they submitted? http://bugs.python.org/issue4933 I did now (python-2.5.4-haiku-2.diff). I am not sure what you

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-15 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I don't see such a commitment in this case, but if a believable one comes up I'm sure Martin would happily revert his position. Indeed. I have myself added support for AtheOS, even though I had never used the system. The AtheOS maintainer ran away, the code rotted, and eventually get ripped

[Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-14 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Martin closed a patch http://bugs.python.org/issue4933 for adding support so that Python runs on Haiku. The theory is that we don't want to support minority operation systems. My view is that we should support those systems to the extent that someone like the OP is willing to maintain the

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-14 Thread skip
Raymond The theory is that we don't want to support minority operation Raymond systems. My view is that we should support those systems to Raymond the extent that someone like the OP is willing to maintain the Raymond handful of deltas needed to get all tests to pass (the OP's

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-14 Thread Guido van Rossum
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 for each new Python version that comes out, initially it is broken on Haiku, and

Re: [Python-Dev] Support for the Haiku OS

2009-01-14 Thread scott mc
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org wrote: 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 for