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There is a high chance that there is no pyca/cryptography users on these niche platforms that Gentoo is trying to support. If there are any, they should pay for
by Chyzwar 6y ago
There is a high chance that there is no pyca/cryptography users on these niche platforms that Gentoo is trying to support. If there are any, they should pay for support not expect maintainers to support theirs fridge platform.
- viraptor 6y ago> support theirs fridge platform. I love this typo in context of s390!
- sanxiyn 6y agopyca/cryptography was an indirect dependency of Gentoo's package manager, Portage. Portage is written in Python. So by definition, there were users. "was", because after this incident, careful review revealed that it isn't necessary, and dependency got removed. So yes, probably no users now.
- msla 6y agoSpeaking of fridge platforms, does LLVM target any PIC ISAs?
- toast0 6y agoIf Gentoo doesn't work on fridges, what's up with this: > The Gentoo/s390 Project works to keep Gentoo the most up to date and fastest s390 distribution available. That's a declaration of support, and if that's not what they mean, they could list some limitations on their wiki. [1] A lot of system distributions declare some platforms as supported and others as best effort and still others as probably not working, but you're welcome to try. That's reasonable, of course, but it's nice if you're upfront about it. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:S390 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:S390
- Chyzwar 6y agoThen this is up to Gentoo and IBM to support the latest versions on the platform discontinued in 1998!. It is unreasonable to expect pyca/cryptography maintainers to support these platforms that are not even supported by python itself.
- cp9 6y agosounds great! I look forward to gentoo and IBM stepping up to the plate to maintain support