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

[Chris Townley]

On 22/11/2020 00:38, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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

But I have only played with Python 3

Chris