I presume the reason was that noone wants to maintain code for the case where there are no buildbots available and there is no development time available. You are free to put back in the files and see if they work (they might not), but such things are usually removed if they're a maintenance burden. I would be happy to assist you with finding someone willing to do commercial maintenance of ctypes for itanium, but asking python devs to do it for free is a bit too much.
Cheers, fijal On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Cristi Fati <cristifa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Not sure whether you got this question, or this is the right distribution > list: > > Intel has deprecated Itanium architecture, and Windows also deprecated its > versions(currently 2003 and 2008) that run on IA64. > > However Python (2.7.3) is compilable on Windows IA64, but ctypes module > (1.1.0) which is now part of Python is not (the source files have been > removed). What was the reason for its disablement? > > I am asking because an older version of ctypes (1.0.2) which came as a > separate extension module (i used to compile it with Python 2.4.5) was > available for WinIA64; i found (and fixed) a nasty buffer overrun in it. > > Regards, > Cristi Fati. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/fijall%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
