[Python-Dev] HP-UX clean-up (original) (raw)

Cameron Laird claird at lairds.com
Sat Jan 3 13:22:56 EST 2004

From neal at metaslash.com Sat Jan 03 12:28:17 2004 . . . I think newer versions of HPUX are a little better. Since most of the HPUX resources available (snake-farm and HP Test Drive machines) tend to be 11.x+. But very few have access to HPUX, Irix, or AIX.

> Who are the folks with an HP-UX interest?

I wouldn't say I have an interest in HPUX beyond the fact that I'd like to see it work and have access to some boxes. :-) I can try to make some time available to help.

> 2. Does anyone happen to have an executable > built that can "import Tkinter"? That's my > most immediate need. If you can share that > with me, it'd help my own situation, and I'll > continue to push for corrections in the > standard distribution, anyway.

If so it would probably be for HPUX 11.something.

Neal

Your characterization is likely apt: several of us simply want to see it work and have access to boxes. It's hard to have much more enthusiasm for it than H-P (the company to cashier OSF1, MPEix, ...) does--and that's precious little.

I'll try to confine myself to technical points though, especially in anything broadcast to all of python-dev.

Does someone have a Tkinter-importable Python for 11.x? I'd like to know that ...

Whether to support just 11.x, or aim also for 10.20 and above, is a thorny question; it's probably easier just to do the work than to settle that one by pure reasoning. It suits me to start with 10.20, so that's what I'll do, until someone makes a specific argument to the contrary.

I can probably get Irix and AIX later in the year--maybe by February. First things first ...

Has anyone been in contact with the HP-UX Porting Center folks recently? I wonder if I should enlist their help ...

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