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

[Jean-François Piéronne]

Le 23/11/2020 à 15:03, Craig A. Berry a écrit :
> 
> On 11/23/20 1:57 AM, Jean-François Piéronne wrote:
>> Le 22/11/2020 à 00:18, Craig A. Berry a écrit :
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> When we do the port, Philippe Vouters and I, of libffi to OpenVMS we
>> (mostly Philippe) do the port for Alpha and I64.
> 
> Good to know.  Only the IA64 port is available here:
> 
> <https://vmsfree.ouvaton.org/freen/index.php?s=libffi>
> 
>> In fact, we do the port for Python.
>>
>> So you can build Python 3 on Alpha without any problem.
>>
>> A few months ago I have asked if anyone is interested having a Python
>> 3.10 on Alpha, no replies, as all customers who use Python on OpenVMS
>> are on I64, I only ld images for I64.
>>
>> All the sources, Python 3.10 and libffi and others are on
>> https://foss.vmsgenerations.org/
> 
> Which points to a GitLab sign-in page.  Apparently one has to have an
> account to see anything there.  Which also means nothing there will turn
> up in a web search because the search engines won't be able to see
> anything behind the authentication wall.
> 
There is a link at the bottom of the page:

https://foss.vmsgenerations.org/explore


You don't need a account except for a few projects, like the zabbix
agent or the tool to do various security control of an OpenVMS system.

JFP

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