[issue16136] Removal of VMS support
Sandeep Mathew added the comment: Hi , I love VMS very much, I could not concentrate actively on python because other work commitments ate up most of my time. I have left my job at HP and am now a PhD student and university of Nevada , Reno . Now that I do not have any professional commitments , I should be able to work on it in a more timely manner. I had used python for an internal project in HP. The problem now I have is that I need access to a VMS machine. I was not able to setup a build bot because buildbot needed some ports to be open , the machine provided HP did not give privilleges to do that. Another thing was that they wanted me to use gnv to compile python in VMS . I however did not really agree with it , gnv is buggy and you need to enable millions to of hacks to gets programs to compile. Programs written for VMS should be written the VMS way not the unix way. I was able to get Python 3.x to compile using gnv finally but it would not run properly. Is it possible for anyone to provide a VMS box with C Compiler and tools ( MMS) so that I can start working on it again. I will try asking HP , whether they would allow me to start working on it on the old VMS cluster they provided. --Thomas -- nosy: +sandman101 ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue16136> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue16136] Removal of VMS support
Sandeep Mathew added the comment: It does build with some tweaking here and there. But I ran into runtime issues. I am sorry, I cannot dedicate time on it further. IMHO anything built for VMS should use VMS specific API's in the way they are designed for stability and performance reasons, some more code needs to be written. Regards Sandeep Mathew On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:31 AM, John Malmberg wrote: > > John Malmberg added the comment: > > Does not look like anything vital to VMS got removed. > > Configure basically worked under current GNV. > > And a few tweaks later with out changing any files checked out of the > Mercurial repository, make is producing a functional python binary before > it quits. > > bash-4.2$ ./python notdeadyet.py > I'm not Dead Yet, I think I'll go for a Walk > bash-4.2$ ./python > Python 3.5.0a0 (default, Jun 17 2014, 00:03:16) [C] on openvms0 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> Exit > bash-4.2$ uname -a > OpenVMS EAGLE 0 V8.4 AlphaServer_DS10_617_MHz Alpha Alpha HP/OpenVMS > > More work is needed of course, mostly adding some more libraries that > Python is expecting and showing GNV how to have configure and make find > them. A lot of compile warnings need to be resolved. > > -- > > ___ > Python tracker > <http://bugs.python.org/issue16136> > ___ > -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue16136> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue16136] Removal of VMS support
Sandeep Mathew added the comment: I have asked HP for access to a VMS box so that I restart my work. I initially checked with the university to see if I can get hold of an Itanium box. @Trent : If you have HP - UX already running, you may make use of Hyper-V to get vms running without changing the existing the HP-UX installation. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue16136> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue16136] Removal of VMS support
Sandeep Mathew added the comment: Hey, I was given access to HP's open source VMS cluster, Many thanks to HP. I should be able to continue python development for VMS. I shall ping you guys in case I get stuck. I should be good to go --Thomas -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue16136> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue16136] Removal of VMS support
Sandeep Mathew added the comment: Sorry for late response. I got delayed , I am working on it . Regards Sandeep Mathew 2013/3/9 Jesús Cea Avión : > > Jesús Cea Avión added the comment: > > Ping... > > -- > > ___ > Python tracker > <http://bugs.python.org/issue16136> > ___ -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue16136> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
