Portability of Python (VS.Net, Java etc.)

[srijit at yahoo.com]

Hello,
Thanks for your good response. This reply can be part of "Re: Python
and VS.Net" thread but I would prefer to put it under a different
subject.

I was just wondering that if Python has to be compatible to MS.NET
does it mean
that

1) Python should be re-written C# like Jython has been written in Java
?

But my bigger concern is about the term "Portability". More than OS,
it looks like frameworks/VMs (.NET and Java ) are getting more
dominant today.

So for middleware like Python (though Python script runs on its own
VM) should be compatible with both the frameworks in order to remain
practically portable.

This appears practically impossible unless we use lowerst common
denominator of both the frameworks.

So just compiling Python on GNU C for Windows instead of VC++ may not
be enough. Moreover Google may also change in future (I have no idea
now what may change!)

I guess this topic would have been discussed before. If so, it will be
nice member(s) can send me the links.

Regards,
Srijit

anton at vredegoor.doge.nl (Anton Vredegoor) wrote in message news:<bg309p$p2b$1 at news.hccnet.nl>...
> Me too, but this question should probably be asked in the Python
> developers mailing list, which according to my analysis above should
> be turned into a newsgroup as soon as possible. Also they'd better
> answer that they're going to migrate to mingw-compiling soon :-)
>