[Info-vax] Python and various libraries updated

[Jean-François Piéronne]

> 
> Hi. And many thanks for your efforts!
> 
> I can now see two new LD images but I do not understand the naming.
> There are two "jfppy0700a_278.zip", one with, and one w/o, ";1".
> And then one new "jfppy1400a.zip".
> 
> You wrote that "most of the libraries and Python 2.7 for AXP has
> been updated". Should one of these been named "jfplibxxxxx.zip"?
> 
> Index of /anonymous/kits/axp/images_ld/
[snip]
Thanks, this is fixed.

> 
> You also mention Python 3.10a0.
> 
> But "https://docs.python.org/dev/" says:
> 
> Docs by version:
> Python 3.10 (in development)
> Python 3.9 (pre-release)
> Python 3.8 (stable)
> 
> Any specific reason to port a "in development" version?
> Or have I missed that 3.8 is already ported (?).

Python 3.10 is will be release next year, so my goal is to have the
latest Python version available when VMS on X86 will be production ready.

Another goal is to have a version which will be maintained for many years.

Not porting 3.8 or, now 3.9, is just because I do not have enough time.
But it is doable, need to back port the patches to the corresponding
branches. Having patches include in the default branch will make release
of future version simple.

I have included some of the patches included in the old 3.5 port, but
not all sources are provided, or are not usable on recent Python 3 version.

With one customer, we have started to port a fairly large application
without, currently, many problems. The 2to3 tools work much better than
I have initially expected. Also having the same extensions than in
Python2 is a big help.



JF

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