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

[Jean-François Piéronne]

Le 23/11/2020 à 17:27, Craig A. Berry a écrit :
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>>>
>>
>> I do not see why an account to see the vmsgenerations content is an
>> issue.
> 
> I already explained that people who don't know it's there will never be
> able to find it. It's also just another hoop to jump through when it's
> easy enough to allow public access to a GitLab project:
> 
> <https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/public_access/public_access.html>
>

Interesting complain, probably no access to any sources like VSI is
doing make you much happy :-))

Also there is a link explore on the login page...

FYI there are about 40 registered users.

You have no problem with sourceforge wich add a lot of trakers, ad's so
why with gitlab (technically with heptapod) which is the most advanced
devop system...

>> I find it more noteworthy that JFP has a Python 3.10 available for IA64
>> since some time back (this summer) while the VSI version is currently on
>> 3.9 or 3.8.6.
> 
> JFP's work is exemplary but 3.10 is still in pre-release and really
> should not be used in production.  VSI's release of 3.8.2 is pretty much
> in line with what other vendors are doing, assuming they have even moved
> to Python 3.

I have tough, but clearly that was a dream, that VSI will look at what
customers are using... Instead they choose to work alone without any
interest for what customers need. Some have big Python application on
VMS, The VSI kit break a lot of thing and worse doesn't allow what they
use/need. And yes as I have ported Python on VMS for more 15 (20?) years
I know many of them...

I have explain why 3.10, for sure I can build a 3.8, probably 3.9 which
is the latest version. But as VSI doesn't provide access to their port I
doesn't like to do again a job already done, and I have had meeting with
some current Python users on VMS, some are still using 2.5, one 2.3...
So no hurry to go to 3.


JFP

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