On 30/10/2020 08.58, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
It would make life of Illumos and OpenIndiana developers much harder, that can be seen hostile to open source community. It would make the code of CPython more rigid, virtually Linux-only with Windows and MacOS patches, and as a side effect can make harder porting it to other platforms. This is not great.
If you want to remove platform specific code from CPython source, do you consider the idea of removing support of MacOS and maintain it as "downstream patches"?
That's an unfair and polarizing comparison. You know as good as I that macOS is a major platform which is actively used and maintained by several core developers. I don't recall any core devs that maintain Solaris port. PEP-11 lists clear rules about platform support. As long as we don't have a core developer for Solaris support and stable build bots, I'm all in favor to remove the platforms. Christian