Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Le mercredi 27 janvier 2010 à 10:37 +0000, Marc-Andre Lemburg a écrit : > > I find it rather strange that Python 3.x now only supports > NT and POSIX threads in ceval while it still supports the > whole set of other thread implementations for the _thread > module. > > Has this been discussed on python-dev ?
Yes, it was. See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/093276.html All these thread_*.h files are still there, but most of them are deprecated (see the #error's in thread.c). It's the consensus that came out on the mailing-list. The one exception is OS/2, which is "supported" as long as Andrew McIntyre (or someone else, of course) takes care about it. It was decided that OS/2 compatibility wasn't important enough to bar adding new features or making improvements. > Why can't the code necessary to get the new GIL working be > added to Sjoerd's portable thread library ? The condition variable "emulation" used by the new GIL under Windows is not valid as a general condition variable mechanism; this is mentioned in ceval_gil.h, and a link is given to a much more complicated (but valid) condition variable emulation. Therefore, I think it could be detrimental to expose it publicly. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7753> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
