Re: [9fans] python and mercurial

["ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>]

On 4/14/07, Federico Benavento <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess we should start writing emulation wrappers or whatever
> they're called for the stuff we don't have

only if you are writing them with the intent of jamming them back into
Python mainstream. Fix Python. Plan 9 isn't broken, after all ...

Python has all kinds of guck in the modules, to try to figure out what
it has and what it hasn't. So for select support, you would want to
fix that for the plan 9 case, in the usual manner (whatever that might
be ...)

It's ugly, I know, but there are not many good choices here, and if we
get Python, we get a lot. That's not saying I like Python, just that
we need it. Backward compatibility is hell, but we have it easy. Just
talk to an Intel architect sometime about backward compatibility.

ron