[Python-Dev] Partial support of a platform (original) (raw)
Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 12:41:30 EST 2017
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Hi,
I see more and more proposed changes to fix some parts of the code to "partially" support a platform.
I remember that 5 years ago, the CPython code was "full" of #ifdef and other conditional code to support various platforms, and I was happy when we succeeded to remove support for all these old platforms like OS/2, DOS or VMS.
The PEP 11 has a nice description to get a full support of a new platform: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/
But the question here is more about "partial" support.
While changes are usually short, I dislike applying them to Python 2.7 and/or Python 3.6, until a platform is fully support. I prefer to first see a platform fully supported to see how much changes are required and to make sure that we get someone involved to maintain the code (handle new issues).
Example of platforms: MinGW, Cygwin, OpenBSD, NetBSD, xWorks RTOS, etc.
But the way, is there an exhaustive list of platforms "officially" supported by CPython?
Victor
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