[Python-Dev] [edk2] Official port of Python on EDK2

[Brett Cannon]

The official guidelines on what it takes to add official support for a
platform is https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#supporting-platforms.
Basically it's a core dev willing to sponsor and maintain the work, a
buildbot, and implicitly at least a 5 year commitment.

On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 at 05:55 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 13:46:27 +0100
> Christian Heimes <christian at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > > This work would target the master branch (that is Python 3). I would
> > > be interested in hearing your thoughts on this idea.
> >
> > In general your proposal sounds like a good idea. A new platform may
> > require a PEP, though.
>
> It would also require a maintainer and a maintenance promise for
> several years (5 or 10? I don't know).  I doubt any other core
> developers are interested in/equipped for dealing with EDK2 issues,
> regressions and subtleties.
>
> > You can start now by submitting pull requests for the header fixes. Even
> > in the case we decide not to support EDK2, we make your life easier by
> > reducing the amount of extra patches.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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