[Python-Dev] Tru64 support

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Sep 4 14:11:22 CEST 2012


On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:24:10 +0300
Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unittests for subprocess module has weird comment:
> We cannot use os.path.realpath to canonicalize the path, since it
> doesn't expand Tru64 {memb} strings.
> See bug 1063571.
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/82ae284cd5f1/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py#l374
> is link to comment,
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1063571 — issue in bugtracker.
> 
> Is it still up to date? Bug has been created in 2004.
> I don't see Tru64 in list of available buildbots.
> 
> Do we need to care about this platform?

I don't think so. If some hypothetical Tru64 user cares, they can
probably open a bug on the tracker.

Regards

Antoine.


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