[Python-Dev] What's required to keep OS/2 support in Python 3.3 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Jan 6 13:42:45 CET 2012

Hi Paul,

I'm a little slow in responding to http://blog.python.org/2011/05/python-33-to-drop-support-for-os2.html, but I'm interested in stepping up to help maintain OS/2 support in Python 3.3 and above.

I've been building Python 2.x for a while, and currently have binaries of 2.6.5 available from http://os2ports.smedley.info Unlike Andrew Mcintyre, I'm using libc for development (http://svn.netlabs.org/libc) rather than emx. libc is still being developed whereas emx hasn't been updated in about 10 years. I haven't attempted a build of 3.x yet, but will grab the latest 3.x release and see what it takes to get it building here.

I would suggest you start from the Mercurial repository instead. There you'll find both the current stable branch (named "3.2") and the current development branch (named "default"). It will also make it easier for you to write and maintain patches.

Let me point you to the devguide, even though it doesn't talk specifically about porting: http://docs.python.org/devguide/

Regards

Antoine.

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