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Author Michael.Felt
Recipients Michael.Felt, michael-o, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date 2018-09-01.12:24:43
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On 28/08/2018 23:14, STINNER Victor wrote:
> STINNER Victor <vstinner@redhat.com> added the comment:
>
>> Can we backport this to 3.7 at least?
I am the AIX(tools) Michael, Michael O is the HP-UX Michael :p

So I was not the one asking. IMHO - as the PEP was new, if I understood
correctly, in 3.7 - would be "nice" to see it back ported.

However, like you - my goal is to get the tests passing on master, and
worry about backport later.
> My policy is to focus on the master branch to support a new platform. Then add a buildbot and find a core developer to maintain this platform. See the PEP 11 for details.
>
> I would prefer to see a full test suite passing before discussing which changes should or should not be backported.
>
> I would also prefer to first see a more general discussion about who is going to support HP-UX.
>
> IMHO HP-UX is not officially supported today. My list of supported platforms:
> https://pythondev.readthedocs.io/cpython.html#supported-platforms
>
> See the test_utf8_mode now pass on HP-UX, I close the issue. Please open more specific issues for other failures. You might open a meta issue to track all HP-UX issues.
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