Re: [PATCH] fix python27 on aix for 2015Q4

[Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Benny Siegert wrote:
> Reporting upstream is essentially useless with Python when you are on 
> wheat they call a "minority platform". They have a policy of not 
> supporting those.

Pardon me if I think this sounds extremely lame. I guess it's a volunteer 
project and they can do or not do as they please.

I'll be smiling in a few years when the cool kids come out with 
the-next-cool-kid-language and Python ends up in the same situation as 
Smalltalk, Perl, TCL, and zillion other scripting languages of yore. They 
were all "hot" at some point. Read into that whatever you like.

It's frustrating when folks won't fix bugs just because it's specific to 
my pet OS's, but I've got a sneaking suspicion that BSD will still be 
going strong when the kids smokin' behind the gym are wondering why anyone 
*ever* wrote code in Python instead of Language-XYZ of the day.

-Swift