Re: [Python-Dev] Python Support on OpenVMS

2011-05-16 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Mon, 16 May 2011 08:08:27 + "Mathew, Sandeep (OpenVMS)" wrote: > Hi All, > > Thanks for your responses!. First thing on my radar is to get buildbot > working on OpenVMS. > I had a quick glance at source, although buildbot is written purely in python > it has many > platform specific iss

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Support on OpenVMS

2011-05-16 Thread Mathew, Sandeep (OpenVMS)
Hi All, Thanks for your responses!. First thing on my radar is to get buildbot working on OpenVMS. I had a quick glance at source, although buildbot is written purely in python it has many platform specific issues. See: https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/blob/master/master/README.w32 However

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Support on OpenVMS

2011-05-16 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:20 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Am 16.05.2011 04:15, schrieb Senthil Kumaran: >> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:00:30PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: >>> For ongoing support, it would also be *really* helpful if HP could >>> provide an OpenVMS buildbot. >> >> Yes, that would b

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Support on OpenVMS

2011-05-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 16.05.2011 04:15, schrieb Senthil Kumaran: > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:00:30PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> For ongoing support, it would also be *really* helpful if HP could >> provide an OpenVMS buildbot. > > Yes, that would be best first step in the on-going struggle to support > OpenVMS p

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Support on OpenVMS

2011-05-15 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:00:30PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > For ongoing support, it would also be *really* helpful if HP could > provide an OpenVMS buildbot. Yes, that would be best first step in the on-going struggle to support OpenVMS platform. The problem in the first place is no one has th

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Support on OpenVMS

2011-05-14 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Any compilation errors and test suite failures should be reported to > the bug tracker (http://bugs.python.org/), preferably with patches > since I doubt any of us would be able to fix the issues themselves. For ongoing support, it would al

Re: [Python-Dev] Python Support on OpenVMS

2011-05-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Welcome Sandeep, > I am willing to spend time and effort to ensure that python remains supported > on OpenVMS. Please let me know what needs to be done for continued > OpenVMS Support in Python. Looking forward to working with the Python > community. The first thing would be to check whether the

[Python-Dev] Python Support on OpenVMS

2011-05-13 Thread Mathew, Sandeep (OpenVMS)
Hi Folks, I am Sandeep Mathew from OpenVMS engineering in Hewlett-Packard. I have worked on various components of the OpenVMS operating system including MONITOR, TDF, EXEC, LIBRTL, DCL and SYSMAN. I happened to read this blog post about dropping OpenVMS support for further releases of pytho