On 8 April 2015 at 20:36, Maciej Fijalkowski <fij...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
As a point of reference, even Red Hat dropped Itanium support for RHEL6+ - you have to go all the way back to RHEL5 to find a version we still support running on Itanium. For most of CPython, keeping it running on arbitrary architectures often isn't too difficult, as libc abstracts away a lot of the hardware details. libffi (and hence ctypes) are notable exceptions to that :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
