[Python-Dev] VAX NaN evaluations

martin at v.loewis.de martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Nov 5 00:45:26 CET 2013


Quoting John Klos <john at ziaspace.com>:

> The nice Python folks who were at SCALE in Los Angeles last year  
> gave me a Python t-shirt for showing Python working on m68k and for  
> suggesting that I'd get it working on VAX. With libffi support for  
> VAX from Miod Vallat, this is now possible.

I'm sorry to hear that - you might have been wasting your time (but
then, perhaps not).

We decided a while ago that the regular Python releases will not support
VAX/VMS any longer. So any code you write has zero chance of being
integrated into Python (the same holds for m68k code, BTW).

That said, you are free to maintain your own branch of Python. In that
branch, you can make whatever changes you consider necessary, but you
will be on your own.

Kind regards,
Martin




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