[Info-vax] Python and various libraries updated

[Jean-François Piéronne]

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>> 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.
> 
> So that port is using the current IA64 3.10 port? I guess you expect
> 3.10 to be reasonable stable from now and up to the formal release?
> 

Correct, and we upgrade the Python 3.10 LD only when we need some fixes
or specific VMS updates.

> Is VSI involved in any way at all in these Python related work?
> 
Do you see VSI involve in any open-source project ?
Have you ever seen any VSI contribution to an open-source project ?

And not, a port without release sources updates is not a contribution,
it is a license violation...

JF

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