Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

> No criticism was intended. It was merely an RFI. Not sure whether you got the answer you wanted - when I said "it is too much effort to build (and too few users)", I really meant "it is non-zero effort, which is too much". Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

On Nov 21, 8:55 pm, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher wrote: > >> Yes. It's too much effort to build, and too few users that actually > >> use it. Users are still free to build it themselves, and to share > >> the build with others. > > > I guess that I don't understand why you f

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

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 b

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

Christopher wrote: Yes. It's too much effort to build, and too few users that actually use it. Users are still free to build it themselves, and to share the build with others. I guess that I don't understand why you feel there is so much effort involved. I developed a set of makefiles that bui

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

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

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

> 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 emerge

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

> I guess that I don't understand why you feel there is so much effort > involved. I developed a set of makefiles that build Python and all > dependencies from the command line using nmake. The only thing you > have to do is specify debug and cpu. The rest is taken care of by the > Makefiles. O

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

I'm not sure what to say about that. The company I work for is committed to Python (our product is mostly Python source), and my current job is to make our software work on Itanium, which means providing an Itanium build of Python. As long as I have this job I suspect that I will be maintaining i

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

Christopher wrote: > [Martin von Loewis wrote]: >> Yes. It's too much effort to build, and too few users that actually >> use it. Users are still free to build it themselves, and to share >> the build with others. > > I guess that I don't understand why you feel there is so much effort > involved.

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

> Yes. It's too much effort to build, and too few users that actually > use it. Users are still free to build it themselves, and to share > the build with others. I guess that I don't understand why you feel there is so much effort involved. I developed a set of makefiles that build Python and a

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

Jerry Hill wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Then why is there a link on the download site? Where specifically did you spot that link? I can't see any. I believe the link in question is on the page http://www.python.org/download/ titled "Pyth

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

> Copied from the download page: It would have helped if you had provided the URL instead. I didn't recognize that you were talking about http://www.python.org/download/ as I rarely ever view this page. On http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/ no such link is included. I have now dele

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Then why is there a link on the download site? > > Where specifically did you spot that link? I can't see any. I believe the link in question is on the page http://www.python.org/download/ titled "Python 2.6 Windows I

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Then why is there a link on the download site? > > Where specifically did you spot that link? I can't see any. > Copied from the download page: - Python 2.6 compressed source tarball

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

> Then why is there a link on the download site? Where specifically did you spot that link? I can't see any. > You are saying that > for python 2.6 forward, there is no plan to support a stock python for > IA64? Is there any particular reason why this is so? Yes. It's too much effort to build,

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

Then why is there a link on the download site? You are saying that for python 2.6 forward, there is no plan to support a stock python for IA64? Is there any particular reason why this is so? -={C}=- Christian Heimes wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Anyone know where else I can download 2.6

Re: 404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where else I can download 2.6 for x64 windows? x64 is AMD64 aka X64_86 and not the Itanium version. Itanium is IA64. We don't build Python for IA64 anymore. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list