[Python-Dev] Portability: update and oblique apology (original) (raw)

Cameron Laird claird at lairds.com
Fri Mar 19 22:04:49 EST 2004

Back in January, I instigated a rather long thread <URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041607.html > that, inevitably, touched on several topics: keeping Python going on minor platforms, how to patch, threading varieties, and so on. I wrote 'bout how I really, really wanted to "normalize" HP-UX, Irix, and a few other Unixes.

Then I disappeared.

I know what I think of people who promise and don't deliver. Life became busy and ... well, here we are now. I still have an interest in HP-UX et al., I'll have good access to them at least through the end of the year, and I understand Python generation better than be- fore: these are all good things. I've got too much going on to lead any effort, but I'll pitch in when I can make a difference.

I wonder, though, what does make a difference. While I have all sorts of ideas about how to smooth out rough edges, maybe HP-UX is already good enough. Maybe zero more newcomers will ever care about HP-UX, or old HP-UX releases.

So, this is what I want: be aware that I'm still motivated to help. Accept my apology for the long silence. And please let me know if a specific need for portability improvements turns up (as in, "IBM offered XXX if we just do a better job of supporting AIX", or, "I've got a customer that likes our product, but we need help assuring them it'll have a trouble-free future under OpenBSD" or ...).

It'll be an indeterminate interval 'fore I turn up here again.

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