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> Many POSIX functions aren’t available on every system, especially embedded ones.
What do you call "embedded systems"? I worked on set top boxes (the box to watch television) between 2011 and 2013 and we had a regular Linux kernel with all POSIX functions. Most of the time, the CPU was a slow MIPS. The tool chain was based on GCC. For some hardware, we used the µlibc but this C library provides all functions required by Python.
> Personally, I'd rather answer that it's not our problem if some systems are not POSIX-compliant. Maintainers of such systems can always maintain a patch to disable the missing functionality. Adding conditionals everywhere has a non-trivial maintenance cost.
I agree. Anyway, in the embedded world, softwares are usually old and heavily patched. For example, in 2013 we still used Python 2.5.2 with a lot of patches. For example, patches for cross compilation. But also backported features like HTTP Keep-Alive or HTTPS checks.
Technically, you can easily fork Python repository and keep your patches up to date using rebase.
We defined better rules to support officially a platform. A requirement is for example to have a buildbot running tests daily on the platform. I'm not sure that you are able to host a public buildbot for each custom embedded platform...
Android looks a more important target and it was already discussed to setup a Android buildbot.
I'm in favor of *dropping* all these annoying #ifdef because it's harder to review, maintain and debug such code. Here is my contribution: issue #23753 "Drop HAVE_FSTAT: require fstat() to compile/use Python". A concrete example: we are working on a Python implementation of io.FileIO and I don't want to see hasattr(os, 'fstat') in the Python code because it has a performance cost *at runtime* (see issue #21859).
See also the new Mobile-SIG mailing list which is maybe more appropriate to discuss such changes:
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-sig |
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