STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
Copy of my email sent to python-dev. https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-...@python.org/message/46UUJ4J5YLCWF2JQMC5L7OIYG6PNQLRL/ Since I created the issue and the PR, and sent this email to python-dev (one week ago), many Solaris and Solaris-like (ex: Illumos) users replied that the operating system is definitively alive. I didn't know that Oracle still ships new Solaris updates every month: that's a good thing! But this is not enough to support a platform. We would need proactive contributors to fix known Solaris issues, but also fix new Solaris issues (either regressions, or bugs newly discovered). We would also need a buildbot to run the Python test suite on Solaris (or again, a Solaris-like OS). The good news is that Jakub Kulik started to fix some Solaris issues. I understood that Solaris and Solaris-like operating systems do have downstream patches on Python to fix a bunch of bugs. It seems like some people want to push these fixes to Python upstream which is also a good sign. The other problem that I wanted to discuss is that fixing Solaris issues require core devs (who merge PRs) accessing Solaris. If contributors send patches and some core devs are fine with merging fixes without being able to test them manually, I'm also fine with that. My first intent was to remove support for a definitely dead operating system, but it seems like I was completely wrong (it's alive!). Thanks to people starting to fix Solaris issues, I close my PR and I no longer plan to drop Solaris support. I prefer to leave bpo-42173 open for now, since people decide to use it as a place to collaborate on fixing Solaris issues. Once most tests will pass on the master branch, I also hope that someone will set up a buildbot *and* fix issues discovered by this buildbot. Sorry but just setting up a buildbot doesn't solve any problem, it only increases the maintenance burden for people who maintain the buildbot fleet. For example, we have two AIX buildbots, I report bugs on bugs.python.org, but it seems like nobody is available to fix them... Overall, I'm quite happy with what is happening with Solaris! More collaboration, issues being fixed in Python upstream. I just hope that this work will continue next months. ;-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue42173> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
