[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

[Ulrich Berning]

Gregory P. Smith wrote:

>On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Ulrich Berning
><ulrich.berning at denviso.de> wrote:
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>>As long as the ctypes extension doesn't build on major Un*x platforms (AIX,
>>HP-UX), I don't like to see ctypes dependend modules included into the
>>stdlib. Please keep the stdlib as portable as possible.
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>Nice in theory but ctypes already works on at least the top 3 popular
>platforms.  Lets not hold Python's stdlib back because nobody who uses
>IBM and HP proprietary stuff has contributed the necessary support.
>Making nice libraries available for other platforms is a good way to
>encourage people to either pitch in and add support or consider their
>platform choices in the future.
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>-gps
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It's not my platform choice, it's the choice of our customers. I'm not 
using these platforms just for fun (in fact it isn't fun compared to 
Linux or Windows).

If porting libffi to AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris... (especially using 
vendor compilers) would be an easy job, I'm sure it would have been done 
already. If more and more essential packages depend on ctypes, we should 
make a clear statement, that Python isn't supported any longer on 
platform/compiler combinations where libffi/ctypes doesn't build. This 
would give me arguments to drop support of our software on those platforms.

Ulli