[Python-3000] AtheOS?

[Guido van Rossum]

On 8/17/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> > I'd get in touch with the last known maintainer of the AtheOS port, or
> > some of the Syllabe maintainers (if all else fails, spam their wiki's
> > front page :-). If it's just a renaming maybe they're relying on the
> > same #ifdefs still.
>
> The port was originally contributed by Octavian Cerna (sf:tavyc),
> in bugs.python.org/488073. He did that because the version of Python
> that came with AtheOS was 1.5.2.
>
> > Thanks for doing this BTW! I love cleanups.
>
> It took some effort to integrate this for 2.3, so I feel sad that this
> is now all ripped out again. I'm not certain the code gets cleaner
> that way - just smaller. Perhaps I should just reject patches that
> port Python to minor platforms in the future, as the chance is high
> that the original contributor won't keep it up-to-date, and nobody else
> will, either, for several years.

True, I'm also a bit sad -- my pride used to be the number of
platforms that ran Python. But minority platforms need to learn that
they should support the established conventions rather than invent
their own if they want to be able to run most open source software.
And I think they *are* learning. Now all we need to do is get rid of
all the silly difference between the *BSD versions. :-)

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