[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

[Scott McCreary]

Scott McCreary <scottmc2 at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Martin v. Löwis
<report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:
>
>> I don't have any particular interest in BeOS variants, but this comes as
>> a surprise given that http://python.org/about/ proclaims that "Python
>> runs everywhere."
>>
>> Maybe Haiku could become a supported platform instead of more or less
>> defunct BeOS?
>
> Maybe this can be discussed on python-dev, but there is a standing BDFL
> pronouncement on this matter. It used to be the policy to accept patches
> for any operating system, but this policy is reverted now.
>

I just joined that list, and will move further discussion of this
there, that is once I have a clean patch that can be applied to the
2.6.x branch.  One of Haiku's goals was to improve on POSIX
compliance, so in many ports that we've done (over 100 now) we've
actually had to un-workaround former BeOS workarounds.  So we'd be
fine with removing any BeOS cruft that we come across during a
potential Haiku port/fork.

>> As far as I can tell there is no current BeOS port
>> maintainer, but there is some crud left over from the better times.  If
>> Haiku community can step in and clean up BeOS crud by either removing it
>> or making sure it works on modern BeOS variants, this can only be a good
>> thing.
>
> No. The cost is too high, and there are more important issues to
> resolve. Of course, the Haiku community can provide there fork of Python
> if they want to (and they also get official blessing for forking if they
> want to).
>

I disagree about the cost being too high, as long as our patches are
clean I don't see an issue here, if anything we might find things that
are broken in python that weren't uncovered previously, I think it's a
win-win.  I don't think there's going to be a whole lot that needs to
be patched to get it working on Haiku, we've got a mostly working
2.5.2 binary already, but it's failing a few of the regression tests,
so we are looking into why on those and have left those patches out of
what was submitted, as we wouldn't want to have to undo one of our
previous patches.

-scottmc

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