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

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 06:13:11PM -0700, Bill Janssen wrote:
> And these are all SYSV derivatives, aren't they?  So perhaps it's some
> common fix for all three?

This reminds of a Tim-ism:

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> Just for the record, on AIX, the following C program:

Oh no you don't! I followed AIX threads for the first year it came
out, but eventually decided there was no future in investing time in
baffling discussions that usually ended with "oh, never mind -- turns
out it's a bug" <0.9 wink>.

Vladimir Marangozov and Tim Peters, 23 Jun 1998
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10 years later, things don't seem to be much different.

For ctypes it looks like libffi often fails to compile when not using
GCC; http://bugs.python.org/issue1637120 is an AIX bug report.  For
the curses module, I've noticed that HP-UX seems to require including
additional header files or defining _XOPEN_SOURCE to make curses.h
work.  So I don't think there's a common problem with all these
minority platforms, and we really would need developers on all of
them.

--amk