On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Guido van Rossum wrote:
At this stage, my plan is to finalise a binary release of 2.2 before submitting a new set of patches, taking into account Martin von Loewis' comments and suggestions (much appreciated thank you!) among others. I also plan to try and coordinate my patches with those of Michael Muller (473749, 474169 & 474500 so far) for the VAC++ build of Python for OS/2.
I will try and review Michael's patches with a view to getting them into 2.2, as the VAC++ build has been part of the sourceball for a few versions.
Andy, would it help if you had SourceForge commit privileges? You'd be obliged to only check in code that doesn't break the build on other platforms, so you would be required to test anything you want to check in on another platform (Linux or Windows) before you commit to save you the embarrassment of breaking the build, but if (as I expect) you would mostly be adding stuff inside "#ifdef OS2", that shouldn't be a big burden. It would save you the trouble of uploading patches to SourceForge and it would save *us* the trouble of reviewing your patches and checking them in.
I've never used CVS, but am prepared to rectify that. I am also prepared to work within the commit rules you specify. I can work with the requirement for testing on another platform if FreeBSD is an acceptable test platform. I would also propose to look after patches to the VAC++ build (such as Michael Muller's), on the basis that although I can't test the patches directly, I can test that they don't affect the rest of the system, and I can work with the submitter to resolve issues that affect OS/2 specific functionality. As to whether having commit privs would help - on the time availability front, no; otherwise more likely than not.
All your code would be owned by the PSF, but that's what you want anyway, right?
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