[issue12976] add support for MirBSD platform

2011-09-19 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: You said "I can maintain the patch for future releases". This sounds like a reasonable solution: you keep maintaining the patch; if you want python.org to link to your patch, we can certainly arrange that. By the "no minority platforms" policy, MirBSD is jus

[issue12976] add support for MirBSD platform

2011-09-19 Thread Benny Siegert
Benny Siegert added the comment: Hmm, I thought I was making an argument _for_ applying the patch. As I see it, these are benefits of merging the patch: 1. Being able to compile an unmodified upstream Python on MirBSD. 2. The patches in pkgsrc become smaller. 3. Future Python versions contain

[issue12976] add support for MirBSD platform

2011-09-18 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Ok, closing this as "won't fix", them. -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue12976] add support for MirBSD platform

2011-09-18 Thread Benny Siegert
Benny Siegert added the comment: I agree that the patch is quite small. I am regularly building new Python versions (using pkgsrc) so I can maintain the patch for future releases. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue12976] add support for MirBSD platform

2011-09-17 Thread Charles-François Natali
Charles-François Natali added the comment: Hello Benny, > As requested, here is the full patch for MirBSD support. The diff was taken > against version 2.7.2. It is really quite easy, you just need to handle > MirBSD like OpenBSD. > With this patch, I can successfully compile and run Python o

[issue12976] add support for MirBSD platform

2011-09-16 Thread Benny Siegert
Changes by Benny Siegert : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file23153/patch-az ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Un

[issue12976] add support for MirBSD platform

2011-09-16 Thread Benny Siegert
Benny Siegert added the comment: As requested, here is the full patch for MirBSD support. The diff was taken against version 2.7.2. It is really quite easy, you just need to handle MirBSD like OpenBSD. With this patch, I can successfully compile and run Python on MirBSD. Even though it is a