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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-22 kl. 00:27, skrev 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

If you just like to play with Python, the Python 2 kit for VMS
works just fine. https://www.vmspython.org/doku.php