Help: Python for a big commercial project?

[cmkl]

I sucessfully use Python2.2 on HPUX 11 as well as I used Python2.1 on HPUX 10.2
with InformixDB v1.3 and other useful extensions for development of medium sized
inhouse test tools and database service tools.
I agree: IT IS PAINFUL learn to build Python on HPUX but nevertheless it is 
worth doing. DONT'T use the prebuilt buggy python versions of the 
HPUX porting Center !! Build python yourself, it is then much easier to get 
working C-extensions like database modules, numeric python ...

threads is an issue on HPUX platforms. With HPUX11 I was sucessful to build
thread enabled python (tests sucessful) but I was not able to build a working 
multithreaded database application with a multithreaded enabled Informixdb
module. But it may be possible. It is a matter of time for trying and testing
different settings at compile time. 

On the other hand I was able to build a single-file python interpreter with
several frozen modules - perfect for painless distribution to other HPUX's.
Try this i.e. with perl or the JAVA JRE !!!

Development time is dratically reduced compared to the classical approach
with mixed C / ksh applications. 

Sincerly

Carl KLeffner

"Cereal Muesli" <cereal_con_fibra at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1018437980.14078.python-list at python.org>...
> Hi,
> 
> 	I need a piece of advice from you, Oh wise Pythoneers! 8-)
> 
>   I'm involved in the development of a big DataWarehouse for an important 
> TelCo, and I want to propose Python as
>   the language of choice for internal maintenance tasks, high level control 
> tasks for the loading procedures, etc...
>   the people here is not likely to use any free stuff for "serious" 
> development (you know...no money = no quality, sigh!),
>   but i want to change this, since I believe that Python is really a very 
> good product. I have played with Python for
>   a year or so under Windows, and before trying to convince people here that 
> it is a good choice, I need to know
>   some things:
> 
> - First of all; do you think that Python is suitable for this
>   kind of "serious, big" project?
> 
> - The core DW system and ETL logic runs under a HP-UX 11
>   system. It seems to me that there are too many complains
>   floating around about problems compiling/using Python under
>   this platform; am I right? Does anybody have any good/bad
>   experiences to share about using Python in this kind of OS?
> 
> - Installation: How easy or how hard is the installation of
>   Python for HP-UX 11? I don't want to disturb sys admins more
>   than necessary; do they have to compile everything? Do they
>   need to install GCC to do that? Are there any reliable
>   full-featured pre-built binaries for this platform available to
>   "download-and-install-in-a-minute"?
> 
> - At least two of the candidate modules to be developed in
>   Python require a GUI under X Windows. Does the distribution of
>   Python for HP-UX include TKinter and TK? Do we need a separate
>   download/installation of TCL/TK? In this case, is
>   TCL/TK/TKinter hard to build/install/configure for Python?
> 
> - Database access would be required for some data analysys
>   modules, specifically ORACLE 8 access would definitely be a
>   requirement; how well is this supported under HP-UX? I have
>   seen there are some 3rd party contributions for DB access
>   under Python, but don't know if they work fine for this
>   arquitecture/OS. And again, how hard is to make them run in HP-UX
>   11 (compilation needed, additional libraries, etc...)?
> 
> - Finally: Which version of Python should we use? it seems that
>   1.5.x still rules under *NIX, doesn't it?
> 
> 
> BIG thanks to everybody, help is *really* appreciated.
> 
> 
> Have a nice day!
> 
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