Hello, There has been some issues with Python implementations on Solaris (8/9/10)/OpenSolaris for almost a decade that was implemented on various Solaris releases, SunFreeWare, Opensolaris distros, and at OpenCSW (as mentioned by another user).
So, I wanted to resolve this issue for the Python developers that use Solaris/Opensolaris and try to set the record straight on porting Python to Sun's operating systems. For Blastwave.org, I reviewed how we built Python using Sun Studio. Last week, I decided to review python 2.6.2 and it seems package maintainers were handling certain issues in various ways. But, this would cause issues with Python execution of modules not loading if not done right. I mentioned this in a previous thread that I would resolve issue and as of Aug 6th, I think I got things ironed out. The Python 2.6.2 Aug 6th package that will be released by Blastwave.org is just one of the ways we resolved the Python issue using GCC4 at this time. OpenCSW has followed suit in rebuilding their Python 2.6.2 packages with GCC4 as of Aug 12th (still in testing at the moment). I optimized the Python build so it could be used by other vendors software without having to rebuild the wheel. Of course, other ISVs can do what they wish but I feel optimizing Python helps in web-based scalability and other areas. I planned on releasing Python 2.6.2 built with Sun Studio and the 64-bit implementation as well. Hopefully, this work will trickle upstream to Sun's Python team as Python developers can get to use Python's ctypes feature on OSOL 2009.06/2010.02 and possible some multiprocessing features as well. Sun has a great Python team and there are many people supporting Python development on Solaris/Opensolaris (i.e. even up to Python 3.x). So, hopefully this announcement will put a 'nail in the coffin' on Python 2.6.x issues on OpenSolaris and Solaris. Onward to Python 3.1.... ~ Ken Mays __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
