[issue4933] Patch to add preliminary support for Haiku

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:

[Copy of a post I just made to python-dev]

I'm with Martin. In these days of distributed version control systems, I
would think that the effort for the Haiku folks to maintain a branch of
Python in their own version control would be minimal. It is likely that
for each new Python version that comes out, initially it is broken on
Haiku, and then they have to go in and fix it. Doing that in their own
version control has the advantage that they don't have to worry about
not breaking support for any other minority operating systems, so I
expect that all in all the cost will be less for them than if they have
to submit these patches to core Python; and since that will definitely
be less work for core Python, I would call that a win-win solution.

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