From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4620EA35.7040108@conducive.org> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:50:29 +0800 From: W B Hacker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061030 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] python and mercurial References: <20070414142131.5CB701E8C26@holo.morphisms.net> In-Reply-To: <20070414142131.5CB701E8C26@holo.morphisms.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 47a51c94-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Russ Cox wrote: >> I've always wondered why python's port doesn't use ape... > > It doesn't need to use APE. Python doesn't require Unix. > (It runs just fine on Win32, for example.) > > Russ > > .. and several other non-*n*x OS'en... (though one could, from time-to-time, argue the '..just fine..' point) ;-) Bill