[Python-Dev] new Plan 9 (and family) port of v2.7.5 (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Jun 11 19:25:09 CEST 2013

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Jeff Sickel <jas at corpus-callosum.com>wrote:

I have a set of patches I've developed based on the 2.7 branch that provides a working port of Python 2.7.5 to Plan 9 386 and amd64 builds (an arm version is mostly working, but will need a few more updates before being hauled off on the wagon). Most of the changes, including mkfiles, are local to a Plan9 subdirectory. There are a few changes to Lib/*.py files specifically site.py and sysconfig.py to make living in a semi-POSIX world tolerable with many current Python modules.

Because Plan 9 does not have shared libraries, we must link in all the C modules we want at build time. This means that I've included specific targets to pull in Mercurial sources during the compilation and linking phases. That brings us up to a current version of Mercurial 2.6.2. There is no ssh support for cloning, but we do have a viable version of https: using TLS/SSLv3 that has worked well with bitbucket. That said, I can prepare a patch from my mq work area and submit it upstream in one of various ways for review.

We have moved away from trying to support non-mainstream OSs directly in the code base and prefer people to maintain a patched branch elsewhere. That being said, if any of the changes are reasonable in general feel free to submit patches at bugs.python.org.

Is there a preferred method that does not require an initial hg clone_ _[ssh://hg@hg.python.org/cpython?](https://mdsite.deno.dev/ssh://hg@hg.python.org/cpython%60?) Not quite sure what you mean, but I assume you are asking about submitting patches, in which case you can use an HTTPS clone. SSH access is only for core developers to push changes to the main repo.

-Brett

acme# pwd /usr/jas/src/cmd/cpython acme# hg sum parent: 83814:75a6bbf41cc8 plan9 qbase qtip update setup base install locations branch: 2.7 commit: 8 unknown (clean) update: 37 new changesets, 2 branch heads (merge) mq: 1 applied ac

-jas

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