Malcolm Smith

We don't have a formal assignment process – it's enough to post a comment as you already have, and then create a PR.

That page only mentions Android 11, while our minimum is currently Android 6. So unless they've backported this feature, we won't be able to rely on it yet. For the...

Seems like a reasonable idea. My only suggestion is to be more consistent with the Python standard library by using the name `ENVIRON` rather than `ENV`.

I believe all the things you mentioned can be done using the [`build_gradle_extra_content`](https://briefcase.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/platforms/android.html#build-gradle-extra-content) setting. In each case, after changing the setting, run `briefcase create android` to copy it into your...

https://github.com/beeware/toga/pull/3532 only fixes this for macOS and iOS, so I'll rename the issue to indicate that it only applies to GTK.

We don't use the GitHub assignment feature – posting a comment is enough. You've posted this comment on 5 issues today, but I recommend you only work on one at...

Apparently AIX doesn't use the ELF format, so this argument (which is the same as `-soname`) isn't applicable on that platform. If everything worked without it before, then the simplest...

The `if` check was removed because on Android the SONAME is the same as the filename (libpython3.13.so), so the library was previously buit with no SONAME at all, which caused...

Yes, it would break Android because it would take the `else` branch and build libpython without an SONAME. This means extension modules linked against it would have no NEEDED entry...

Possibly related: * #2213