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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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