Ted Leung wrote:
>
> On May 19, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Steve Holden wrote:
>>>
>> OK, I know people in Sun and possibly H-P I could ask, and I may have
>> an arm or two to twist to get to IBM. But worst-case, what budget
>> would the infrastructure committee need for the hardware and (more
>> importantly) if the hardware materialized, would there be manpower to
>> maintain the platforms as "Python supported"?
>
> You can ask me as far as Sun goes. There are probably a variety of
> options:
>
> 1) Get the open source version of VirtualBox and use it to run a
> virtualized OpenSolaris
> 2) I can see if we can get folks access to a box running Solaris
> 3) I can ask and see if there are people at Sun who would be willing to
> jump in and help
We actually have a couple of Solaris buildbots already - as I understand
it, the issue there isn't Solaris as such, it's being able to use the
Sun compiler instead of GCC to compile ctypes/libffi.
Cheers,
Nick.
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