[Python-Dev] Where is our official policy of what platforms we do support?

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed May 14 2014 at 10:43:18 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
wrote:

> On Wed, 14 May 2014 14:20:26 +0000
> Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Over the past week or so there have been 2 patches to add support for
> > various UNIX OSs. Now I thought we had stopped trying to add new esoteric
> > OSs (e.g. I had never heard of MirOS until the patch for it came in),
> but I
> > can't find a PEP that spells out what it takes to get a platform
> supported (
> > http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/ is about removing platforms,
> > not keeping them or adding them unless you are re-adding one which
> > apparently just takes a volunteer).
>
> OTOH you can fix a platform bug without officially supporting it. If
> someone files an OpenBSD-specific patch, it may make sense to commit it
> even without officially supporting OpenBSD. In practice it all depends
> on how intrusive / reasonable the patch is, and whether it is working
> around a platform-specific bug rather than a standards-compliant
> limitation.
>
> (we could call those "stochastically supported platforms" :-))
>

Very true, but these patches are all for e.g. configure to recognize a
specific platform by listing them in some constant. Changing code to be
more general I have no issue with since that's just good practice.
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