From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Randolph Fritz Message-ID: Subject: [9fans] A Plan 9 Python Interest Group? Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:39:16 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 40815454-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'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? Randolph