Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> In any case, my concern with dropping a stock python itanium distro >> involves the vastly diminished probability that others will provide >> Itanium versions of, for example py2exe and pywin32. > > Well, I had been providing Itanium binaries for 2.4 and 2.5, and neither > py2exe nor pywin32 ever emerged. > > It *is* fairly unlikely that the community will provide Itanium support > for anything, as nobody really has the hardware to run it on. So if you > are using Itanium, you will have to do all the porting yourself. > >> I would certainly be willing to help with testing and building and >> bug fixing to the extent that my secular job allows it. > > If you start providing binaries, we would be happy to link to them > from the release pages (provided they arrive within some reasonable > time after the release, otherwise, the link would go off the download > page, or the windows page). > > I have personally given up with Windows on Itanium - it just isn't > worth my time. We do have new Itanium hardware, but we run VMS and > HP-UX on it. Why would anybody run Windows on Itanium? You can't > get any games for it :-) > > For some time, there was interest in Python for AlphaNT, and that > interest has died away also. It seems that even Microsoft has lost > interest in Itanium as a Windows platform - they never released > Office for it, for example, and Windows 2008 on Itanium is also > crippled. > > Regards, > Martin
If you can't get the compile working could you maybe try using a pure python implementation of the ctypes module, say the one from pypy? Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
