Help: Python for a big commercial project?

[Chris Miles]

I successfully built and use Python 2.2 on HPUX 11.00 with little effort (using
gcc 2.95.2).  My application relies on threading and works fine, so I would be
confident in developing a Python app on HPUX.

CM

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:26:35AM -0700, cmkl wrote:
> I agree: IT IS PAINFUL learn to build Python on HPUX but nevertheless it is 
> worth doing. DONT'T use the prebuilt buggy python versions of the 
> HPUX porting Center !! Build python yourself, it is then much easier to get 
> working C-extensions like database modules, numeric python ...
> 
> threads is an issue on HPUX platforms. With HPUX11 I was sucessful to build
> thread enabled python (tests sucessful) but I was not able to build a working 
> multithreaded database application with a multithreaded enabled Informixdb
> module. But it may be possible. It is a matter of time for trying and testing
> different settings at compile time. 

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