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Mention `pbs3` as an alternative for Windows?

Open twardoch opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

The Readme and docs say that Windows is not supported by sh — which is true, and I unde the rationale.

sh evolved from pbs, and more there is a fork of pbs called pbs3 ( https://github.com/xapple/pbs3/ ) which claims that it works on Windows & in Python 3.

Perhaps the sh docs might mention it briefly for people who need Windows functionality.

If only relatively simple functionality of sh is used, it should be possible for people to use sh on macOS/Linux but use pbs3 on Windows. Maybe someone would even care to make a package that wraps sh & pbs3 in a simple way, exposing the same API using the different backends depending on the platform.

twardoch avatar Mar 31 '24 21:03 twardoch

Is pbs3 still active? The last commit was quite awhile ago and the tests look incomplete. I could mention it if it was confirmed to be maintained and there was more information about feature parity. Could you follow up with xapple on this?

amoffat avatar Apr 01 '24 00:04 amoffat

Reopen if you decide to pursue this please.

amoffat avatar May 13 '24 15:05 amoffat

While it might not be prudent to change the recommendation from pbs to pbs3, it would be highly prudent to remove the recommendation to pbs - Yandex hijacked the pypi package.

tritium21 avatar Jun 14 '24 16:06 tritium21

Good idea @tritium21. That's an easy fix

amoffat avatar Jun 14 '24 18:06 amoffat