[Python-Dev] Tru64 support

Tue Sep 4 17:56:25 CEST 2012

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 02:24:10AM -0700, Andrew Svetlov wrote:
> Is it still up to date? Bug has been created in 2004.
> I don't see Tru64 in list of available buildbots.
>> Do we need to care about this platform? And how to make sure what
> existing code works fine for that?
>> Or maybe we can drop support for Tru64 as well as we already does it
> for, say, VMS?

 The ES40 I've got sitting in the corner waiting for a rainy day just
 died a little inside. (HP was also kind enough to donate unlimited
 Tru64 media/licenses a while back.) As for whether or not it should
 be a platform CPython cares about -- I'd argue it falls in the same
 boat as IRIX/MIPS: not so much. I'll be damned if Snakebite doesn't
 have Tru64/Alpha representation though :-)
 OpenVMS is an interesting one though; it's still actively supported
 by HP on Itanium. I've got an Itanium earmarked marked for OpenVMS
 "for an even rainier day", but I wouldn't know OpenVMS is it smacked
 me in the head, so, not a high priority at the moment.
 Trent.