[PythonCE] "political issues"?

[David L. Kashtan]

This is just conjecture on my part, but having been elbow-deep in the
Python 2.3.4 code, I don't think multi-platform was much of a concern
for Python in the early days.  When you don't have a multi-platform
(in this case Multi-OS) architecture in place early-on, the code slowly
becomes less and less maintainable because of all the conditionals the
developers have to deal with.

I think this is pretty much the problem Brad dealt with when he attempted
to put his Python 1.5 port into the mainline.  With a lot of MACROS going
in, the Mainline developers were reluctant to deal with it.  That is one
of the reasons why I went with a compatability layer to make PythonCE as
close to Win32 Python as possible.

David

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?
> 
> Rc.