Comments on: Python 2.6 is released, some highlights

By: jnoller

jnoller — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:17:26 +0000

I haven’t heard from Richard (the original maintainer) for some time, I think this is a good idea though. I don’t have enough bandwidth to do it myself though

By: Richard Boulton

Richard Boulton — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:09:45 +0000

Is there any plan to backport packages of multiprocessing to python2.5 (or indeed, earlier)? I’ve been using the “processing” package with python2.5, but this seems to be pretty much orphaned now. I’m happy to try and do a backport of multiprocessing myself, but I’d hate to duplicate effort… :)

By: jnoller

jnoller — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:17:26 +0000

I haven’t heard from Richard (the original maintainer) for some time, I think this is a good idea though. I don’t have enough bandwidth to do it myself though

By: Richard Boulton

Richard Boulton — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:09:45 +0000

By: jnoller

jnoller — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:33:45 +0000

The reason FreeBSD and OpenBSD support is only partially there is not due to the package — but rather the shared semaphore implementations on those platforms, which isn’t there, or only halfway there.

By: jnoller

jnoller — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:32:36 +0000

I’ll add a list of supported/tested platforms to the docs — right now,
it’s windows, OS/X, and Linux/Solaris AFAIK

By: Thomas Stromberg

Thomas Stromberg — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:04:00 +0000

Nevermind on it not showing up on the issues page, it’s issue 3876.

By: Thomas Stromberg

Thomas Stromberg — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:03:26 +0000

Sad that OpenBSD/FreeBSD support didn't make the release (though it doesn't show up on the issues page?). Is there a list of UNIX implementations that it has been tested to work on? http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.... simply says 'runs on both Unix and Windows'.