[Python-Dev] Support of the Android platform

[Guido van Rossum]

I think someone may have to mentor Xavier on how to get this accepted. The
note already looks a bit like a PEP, but I suspect that Xavier is not
sufficiently familiar with our process to realize the difference.

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Ned Deily <nad at python.org> wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2017, at 16:26, Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 10, 2017 12:29, "Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 at 06:19 Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> The following note is a proposal to add the support of the Android
> platform.
> >>> [...]
> >> While the note from a technical standpoint is interest, Xavier, I don't
> quite see what needs to be done to support Android at this point. Are you
> simply asking we add Android API 24 as an official platform? Or permission
> to add your note to the Misc/ directory? Basically what are you wanting to
> see happen? :)
> > Maybe it should be a PEP?
>
> Yes, I agree there needs to be a PEP for this.  I have conflicting
> thoughts about formalizing Android support.  On the one hand, it would be
> nice to have.  But on the other, it does add a large non-zero burden to all
> core developers and to the release teams, to the minimum extent of trying
> to make sure that all ongoing changes don't break platform support.  At a
> minimum a PEP needs to address the minimum platform support requirement
> outlined in PEP 11 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#supporting-
> platforms).  As long as Xavier is willing to keep supporting the
> platform, the first requirement, having a core developer, should be met.
> But for a platform that, understandably, has as many special requirements
> as Android does, the second requirement, having a stable buildbot, seems to
> me to be an absolute necessity, and the PEP needs to address exactly what
> sort of buildbot requirements make sense here: emulators, SDKs, etc.
> Otherwise, we run the risk of ending up with an ongoing maintenance
> headache and unhappy users, as has been the case in the past with support
> for other platforms.
>
> --
>   Ned Deily
>   nad at python.org -- []
>
>


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