On Nov 21, 7:35 pm, r0g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
No. I am using ctypes to access Windows .dll functions primarily. I
didn't want to have to write a native code module b/c it's such a
hassle and cytpes works so well.
-={C}=-
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