[Python-Dev] HP-UX clean-up (original) (raw)
Cameron Laird claird at lairds.com
Sat Jan 3 09:15:48 EST 2004
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Python generation for HP-UX is broken. I want to fix it.
Do I need to make the case for the first proposition? I think the threading problems are widely recognized ... This isn't an accusation of moral turpitude, incidentally; it just hasn't worked out to solve HP-UX difficulties, for plenty of legiti- mate reasons. I understand that.
I happened to try a vanilla generation of 2.3.3 under HP-UX 10.20 yesterday, and encountered multiple non-trivial faults (curses, threading, ...). Experience tells me I'd find roughly the same level of problems with other releases of Python and HP-UX.
Do I need to make the case that fixing HP-UX (and eventually Irix and so on) is a Good Thing? I'll assume not, at least for now.
I recognize that there's been a lot of churn in HP-UX fixes-- tinkering with threading libraries, compilation options, and so on. I'm sensitive to such. My plan is to make conservative changes, ones unlikely to degrade the situation for other HP-UX users. I have plenty of porting background; I'm sure we can improve on what we have now.
Here's what I need:
Is it best to carry this on here, or should those of us with HP-UX interests go off by ourselves for a while, and return once we've established consensus? I've been away, and don't feel I know the culture here well.
Who are the folks with an HP-UX interest?
Does anyone happen to have an executable built that can "import Tkinter"? That's my most immediate need. If you can share that with me, it'd help my own situation, and I'll continue to push for corrections in the standard distribution, anyway.
I can compile _tkinter.c "by hand", but (more details, later--the current point is just that stuff doesn't work automatically ...
I'm very rusty with setup.py. While I was around for its birth, as I recall, I feel clumsy with it now. Is there a write-up anyone would recommend on good setup.py style?
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