[Info-vax] VSI Python 3.8.2 port, with a OpenVMS Shark Logo...

[Chris Townley]

On 21/11/2020 23:18, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
> On 11/21/20 1:18 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 21/11/2020 18:42, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>>
>>> VSI has announced a recent Python port for OpenVMS. (Python 3.9 and 
>>> 3.8.6 are the most current.)
>>>
>>> https://twitter.com/VMSSoftware/status/1329794043556098051
>>>
>>> As for the new or new-to-me OpenVMS logo shown, there's a /fin joke 
>>> here somewhere, I just know it.
>>>
>>>
>>  From first look this is I64 only?
>>
>> Is this the future of Alpha here?
> 
> Um, the future of Alpha has been pretty clear since it was discontinued
> a couple of decades ago. VSI does still produce Alpha kits for many (but
> not all) of its open source ports, though often shortly after the
> Itanium kits appear.
> 
> In the particular case of Python 3.x, however, I'm not sure if anyone
> has yet ported the requisite libffi library to Alpha.  Last I heard,
> doing so required knowledge of Alpha assembler, DWARF, Alpha function
> signature details, and the OpenVMS calling standard.  Possibly other
> things I'm forgetting.  People with all the necessary skills probably
> have other things to do. Have you opened a ticket with VSI to ask for
> support?

No, I am on the CL a license!

When I saw the announcement, I thought something else I can play with, 
but perhaps not...

Chris