Re: [9fans] Python on plan9 ?

[Randolph Fritz <randolph@panix.com>]

In article <200106181011.MAA04841@boris.cd.chalmers.se>, Laura Creighton wrote:
> Kenji Arisawa  arisawa@aichi-u.ac.jp
> 
> has another, I believe, but I can't find it now.  As far as I know
> both his port and Jeff Sargeant's (the
> http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/plan9/python) one have sockets
> that don't quite work correctly .... and Jeff Sargeant told me that in mail
> _yesterday_.
> 
> There wasn't enough interest in python to get A Plan 9 Python Interest Group
> started last time this came up:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=c52fa45efe17d6c0,4&seekm=20010104044914.2A620199E3%40mail.cse.psu.edu#p
> 
> (Goodness we need better encoding for Urls...)
> 
> but I think we have enough interest now.  Lets start one.
> 

Sounds like a plan--now if only my Plan9 disk hadn't died. :-(

Some current thoughts:

  - Does anyone have time to organize this?  I had hoped to, but that
    has turned out to be wishful thinking on my part--I want to
    concentrate on school instead.

  - I have hope that the single-level build procedure in Python 2.1
    will be more adaptable to Plan 9 than the previous multi-level
    make.
    
  - The most important first step, it seems to me, is to get the build
    going and get the fixes into Python 2.2, so that it becomes part
    of the standard release.

  - Two versions are probably needed; an APE version that will run
    Posix-dependent Python code and a native Plan 9 version.

  - Once the first step is done, it seems to me the next step would be
    to provide Python objects that encapsulate major Plan 9 elements.

  - It seems to me that the Pippy (Python for Palm) project, with its
    small virtual machine, could provide a base for small clients.

  - It needs a name.  All my notes say "9thon," so that's my suggestion.

Randolph