[Info-vax] PHP

[Mark Daniel]

Jean-François Piéronne wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>> Would they be interested in Python?

Who would want them to be?

On the contrary what VMS PHP needs is the user community to take 
responsibility (cf. J-FP).

>> Python for VMS seems to be less behind than PHP on VMS (even
>> though I do not see 2.6 and 3.0 on the web site).
>>
> 
> That's correct, there is no plan to port 2.6 or 3.0 on OpenVMS.
> Next OpenVMS major release will be based 2.7.
> 3.x will no be ported in foreseeable, not until the 3.x branch become
> production ready.
> 
> If you compare the OpenVMS version with the current one include with
> major Linux distribution, you will noticed that the OpenVMS version is
> not behind.

Seems true enough :-)

> For example, on a Ubuntu box: Python 2.5.2

daniel at gort:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
Release:	8.10
Codename:	intrepid
daniel at gort:~$ python --version
Python 2.5.2
daniel at gort:~$

> On a OpenVMS box: Python 2.5.4

KLAATU$ show sys
OpenVMS V8.3  on node KLAATU ...

KLAATU$ python --version
Python 2.5.4
KLAATU$

> What I have seem, is that most (all) majors platforms are using 2.5.x
> 
> The next OpenVMS kit, probably before end of april, will be still be
> based on Python 2.5.4 but will include new/updated libraries/tools. We
> are waiting for the django 1.1 release.
> A complete list of what will be include in the forthcoming kit:
> http://www.vmspython.org/DownloadAndInstallationPython
> 
> Not related, Python seem to become more and more popular according to tiobe:
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
> 
> 
> JF