[Python-Dev] Python for Small Systems patch

[Christian Tismer]

Ivan Porres Paltor wrote:
> 
> Python for Small Systems is a minimal version of the python interpreter,
> intended to run on small embedded systems with a limited amount of
> memory.
> 
> Since there is some interest in the newsgroup, we have decide to release
> an alpha version of the patch. You can download the patch from the
> following page:
> 
> http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python
> 
> There is no documentation about the changes, but I guess that it is not
> so difficult to figure out what Raul has been doing.

Ivan,
small Python is a very interesting thing,
thanks for the preview.

But, aren't 12600 lines of diff a little too much
to call it "not difficult to figure out"? :-)

The very last line was indeed helpful:

+++ Pss/miniconfigure	Tue Mar 16 16:59:42 1999
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+./configure --prefix="/home/rparra/python/Python-1.5.1"
--without-complex --without-float --without-long --without-file
--without-libm --without-libc --without-fpectl --without-threads
--without-dec-threads --with-libs=

But I'd be interested in a brief list
of which other features are out, and even more which
structures were changed. Would that be possible?

thanks - chris

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