[PythonCE] "political issues" - integration attempt history

[Brad Clements]

On 6 Jan 2006 at 19:06, Rodrigo Contreras Köbrich wrote:

> I'm new to the list, but I'm paying a lot of attention to every
> message and I must say that today the discussion got very spicy. Can
> you explain a little what dealing with the "political issues of
> getting integrated with the mainline development" means? The Nokia
> implementation of Python is well known and I really can't figure out
> why they don't have PPC in mind. It seams that the term "political
> issues" is very inappropriate for an open source project. Who won't be
> glad to have a first-hand well documented version of pythonce?

Whoa.

I hope that my earlier posts didn't imply any "political" issues.

I submitted a patch to python-dev, it wasn't up to snuff.. But I wasn't motivated to 
rework it enough to get it accepted. I don't want anyone to have the false 
impression that I was disappointed by the response I received from python-dev 
folks. 



It's a hard problem. Now google has reminded me the big issue was assignment 
to errno is not allowed on CE because errno is not a variable on the CE platform.

Start with this thread

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-September/028884.html

Of more interest is gvr's response:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-September/028893.html


And this problem, reserved keywords:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2002-September/028905.html

I think those two threads, from 2002, pretty much cooled me to the idea of re-
integration.

(note I was also trying to support Python on NetWare, which had similar issues 
with errno)

NetWare is dead now, but CE remains.. ;-)


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