[Python-Dev] Addition of "pyprocessing" module to standard lib.

[Thomas Heller]

A.M. Kuchling schrieb:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:50:39PM +0200, Thomas Heller wrote:
>> Myself I would rather spend my energy to make ctypes more portable, within my
>> skills and the platforms I have access to.
> 
> Someone could run Solaris x86 inside a hosted virtual machine and make
> it available to the Python developers.  Is it possible to find similar
> hosting for HP-UX and AIX?  Or might IBM or HP be willing to donate a
> low-end machine to the PSF for porting use?

I have a vmware appliance installed that runs "solaris 10 update 2",
gcc and the sun compiler are installed.  As expected (?), ctypes works
fine when compiled with gcc, but fails to build with the siun compiler.

There is also a solaris buildbot running on a sparc machine.

Thomas