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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-11-22 00:53:11 +0000, Chris Townley said:

> On 22/11/2020 00:38, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2020-11-22 kl. 00:27, skrev Chris Townley:
>>> 
>>> No, I am on the CL a license!
>>> 
>>> When I saw the announcement, I thought something else I can play with, 
>>> but perhaps not...
>> 
>> 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

OpenVMS is probably not the best platform to learn about new software 
and new apps.

Learning about older software, older apps, and older configurations, yes.

Little of what development tooling is presently available for OpenVMS 
is a current version.

Some isn't even a remotely recent version.

While there are a few exceptions to this, Fortran, C, and C++ are all 
compliant with older standards.

The C support was only recently updated to add some pieces central to C99.

BASIC and COBOL haven't seen consequential updates in a couple of 
decades, beyond the platform ports.

VSI is working to address this and other issues, and has discussed 
compiler updates, but pretty much all of the new VSI work and the VSI 
updates are targeting x86-64.

Call back next year, when the second beta (V9.1, with mostly-native 
tooling) is expected to be available (for x86-64).




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