The ASPN compiler

[Gerhard Häring]

Fuzzyman wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 02:21:33 +0200, Gerhard Häring <gh at ghaering.de>
> wrote:
> 
>>Fuzzyman wrote:
>>
>>>What's the score on this (the ASPN python compiler) 
>>
>>There was a proof-of-concept implementation of a Python compiler for the 
>>.NET platform done by ActiveState and sponsored by Microsoft.
>>
>>>- is it a true
>>>compiler for python ?
>>Read the whitepaper, available on the ActiveState site.
> 
> Done that - its not entirely clear - any chance you could answer the
> question......

The resulting output can be executed by the .NET runtime and two-way 
interoperability between Python and .NET is currenty possible according 
to that paper.

>>>- what does it output - binary or C++ for .NET
>>>framework............ 
>>Read the whitepaper, available on the ActiveState site.
> 
> Done that - its not entirely clear - any chance you could answer the
> question......

MSIL.

>>>if the latter then it could be very cool as it
>>>may work with the PocketPC 2003 SDK.... for producing binaries for
>>>PDAs from python... cool...
>>
>>Forget it. Instead what you probably want is a Python implementation for 
>>Windows CE 3.0. There is one.
> 
> Not for the SH3 processor... doesn't produce binaries.

Then you could ask the maintainer to produce such binaries. Or download 
the free WinCE SDK + Emulator + whatnot yourself and build binaries 
yourself. You might even learn a little C that way ;-)

Or install Linux or NetBSD on that handheld instead :-)

-- Gerhard