for the record libffi supports itanium officially (but as usual I'm very skeptical how well it works on less used platforms) https://sourceware.org/libffi/
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
