[Python-3000] AtheOS?

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sat Aug 18 20:28:57 CEST 2007


On 8/17/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
>     Brett> On 8/17/07, skip at pobox.com <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>     >> I just got rid of BeOS and RiscOS.
>
>     Brett> Just so you know, Skip, BeOS still has a maintainer on the 2.x
>     Brett> branch.  Whether we want to continue support past 2.x is another
>     Brett> question (as Guido says in another email, it's a hassle and so we
>     Brett> should try to minimize the OS support to those that follow
>     Brett> convention).
>
> I was going by the list on the wiki.  BeOS was on that list.  I removed it
> in a single checkin so if it's decided in the near future to put it back
> that should be easy to do.
>

Well, the maintainer of the current port said he has been moving away
from BeOS.  He guessed the Haiku developers didn't need the special
support (but that's a guess).

Looks like this can probably be removed from 2.6 as well if there is
no maintainer.

-Brett


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