404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> In any case, my concern with dropping a stock python itanium distro
>> involves the vastly diminished probability that others will provide
>> Itanium versions of, for example py2exe and pywin32.
> 
> Well, I had been providing Itanium binaries for 2.4 and 2.5, and neither
> py2exe nor pywin32 ever emerged.
> 
> It *is* fairly unlikely that the community will provide Itanium support
> for anything, as nobody really has the hardware to run it on. So if you
> are using Itanium, you will have to do all the porting yourself.
> 
>>  I would certainly be willing to help with testing and building and
>> bug fixing to the extent that my secular job allows it.
> 
> If you start providing binaries, we would be happy to link to them
> from the release pages (provided they arrive within some reasonable
> time after the release, otherwise, the link would go off the download
> page, or the windows page).
> 
> I have personally given up with Windows on Itanium - it just isn't
> worth my time. We do have new Itanium hardware, but we run VMS and
> HP-UX on it. Why would anybody run Windows on Itanium? You can't
> get any games for it :-)
> 
> For some time, there was interest in Python for AlphaNT, and that
> interest has died away also. It seems that even Microsoft has lost
> interest in Itanium as a Windows platform - they never released
> Office for it, for example, and Windows 2008 on Itanium is also
> crippled.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

If you can't get the compile working could you maybe try using a pure
python implementation of the ctypes module, say the one from pypy?

Roger.