From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200101022110.QAA20807@csociety.ecn.purdue.edu> From: Jonathan Sergent To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] A Plan 9 Python Interest Group? In-Reply-To: Message from Randolph Fritz of "Tue, 02 Jan 2001 17:39:16 GMT." Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 16:10:45 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 41849b72-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Off and on I've been hammering away on getting Python 2.0 to build in > the Plan 9 APE. I have got to the point of compiling and running, and > it passes many of the built-in self-tests, but it still has major > problems--there are serious storage leaks, and for some reason > (perhaps related) complex arithmetic has problems. > > (And, meantime, I've had a messy crash I need to recover from so I > can't work on it for a while.) I made a start at the APE port (I have not worked on it for a while...) which you can get from ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/plan9 I think mine ended up in the same situation that you have yours in... > I'd like to know who else is interested in this and if anyone is > interested if we could get a Plan 9 Python project together. I would > like to see Plan 9 support, native (though with sockets to support > various existing internet client classes) and with classes to support > Plan 9's unique features, in some future release of Python. > > I've made a start at getting it going, and I can put in some more > work, but I can't do most of it; once the next term starts, I'll have > to concentrate on my (non-CS) schoolwork. So are there enough of us > with interest and time to keep at it? I am interested but I don't have tons of time. --jss.