FreeBSD or OpenBSD for Python?
Hye-Shik Chang
perky at i18n.org
Sun Mar 21 14:00:54 EST 2004
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:06:27AM +0000, Patrick Useldinger wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am looking for alternatives to my current Linux OS, and am currently
> evaluating both FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
> Has anyone got a strong point for or against one of these OSes,
> specifically regarding Python? I am especially interested in
> - the ease of compiling CPython
> - the thread support (both for Python and in general)
> - running Twisted.
Maybe not many differences on these points. But I can introduce
difference of features between FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports. (I'm
slightly biased. sorry :)
FreeBSD ports OpenBSD ports
Versions 1.5.2, 2.0.1, 2.1.3, 1.5.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.3,
2.2.3, 2.3.3, 2.4 (040311) 2.3.3
Backported - email.Charset fix for cjkcodecs none
patches (2.3) - intobject.c 2.105 allocation fix
- weakrefobject.c 1.13.6.1 gc fix
Unicode UCS4 UCS2
IPv6 enabled enabled
Threads enabled enabled
Shared lib. both (PIC shared, non-PIC static) non-PIC static only
# of ports 197 50
starting with
py-
FreeBSD's port tweaked many options from the original. So if you
prefer the vanilla python, you'd better to install from the source
tarball. But you can use a port as it is if you do it in OpenBSD
then.
Regards,
Hye-Shik
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