OS Neutrality in Python Development Guidelines?

[Chris Johns]

On 16/4/21 3:28 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 15/04/2021 22:58, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>> I guess we should define something to add here? Is anything written
>> somewhere we can adopt?
> the spirit of the Python guide is to have rules which are enforced by tools.

I see a guide as a means to provide robust and portable code in a common style
where we document and learn from our experiences. Any forced line like needing a
tool would create an artificial barrier where needed rules are not added because
we do not have a tool. I doubt any of us would want that to happen.

> If
> a certain component should run on platform X, then I think some CI system should
> be in place which runs the test suite on platform X.

This is hard to do, costs money and is only as good as a tests. It is important
but we should also use reviews as a way to catch issues.

>> Was this considered at all under the pre-qual effort (which stimulated
>> these guidelines in the first place)? Do we have a Windows blind spot
>> in our Python code bases?
> The Python modules in rtems-central should run on Windows, however, I never
> tested this.

A random pick of a file and a brief scan ...

https://git.rtems.org/rtems-central/tree/rtemsspec/interface.py#n313

For generating code it is important to make sure you use the platform's line
separator or git will get upset.

:)

Chris