[Info-vax] Python for x86?

[John Dallman]

In article <u0s9hd$1bhr0$1 at dont-email.me>, FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com
(Robert A. Brooks) wrote:

> I know next-to-nothing about open source on VMS, but if Python 
> requires C++ to build, then that would be an impediment to its 
> being built for X86_64.
> 
> The native C++ compiler on X86_64 is in field test.

The reference Python implementation, CPython, is written in C, and needs
a C99-capable compiler (C11 from Python 3.11). So the VSI C ought to be
adequate for 3.10 and earlier, but waiting for an LLVM-based C compiler
would allow building an up-to-date CPython. 

John