[Python-Dev] pthreads question: typedef ??? pthread_t and hacky return statements (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim_one@email.msn.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:24:04 -0400

[Gret Stein]

The NPL is not compatible with the Python license.

Or human comprehensibility either, far as I can tell.

While we could use their API as a guide for our own code, we cannot use their code.

The real question is whether somebody has the time/inclination to sit down now and write an x-plat TLS for Python. Always the problem :-)

The answer to Trent's original question is determined by whether he wants to get a Monterey hack in as a bugfix for 2.0, or can wait a few years <0.9 wink> (the 2.0 feature set is frozen now).

If somebody wants to buy the time/inclination to get x-plat TLS, I'm sure BeOpen or ActiveState would be keen to cash the check. Otherwise ... don't know.

all-it-takes-is-50-people-to-write-50-one-platform-packages-and- then-50-years-to-iron-out-their-differences-ly y'rs - tim