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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2020-11-22 kl. 01:53, skrev 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

OK. And I have never used Python 3... :-) As I understand, the
diffeences are not that large, but some are critical...