[Raion]

Ok, so yes, RSE has this, but we don't, and I think such a thing should be reasonably trivial for the right person. 

So this bounty has no extra bonuses, but its pretty simple:

Using no RSE components (it's absolutely fine to use or base your approach on patches they have used and I think they would agree that there's no big deal here) you will need to port a workable Python 3 to IRIX/MIPSPro.

If you need compatibility libraries, you can use my libxg library. I am not opposed to adding more functions that may be needed, see http://gitea.irixce.org/Raion/libxg for what it currently supports. Our only rule there is no modifications of stock system headers, unless it can be proven there's a mistake made in them that even MIPSPro would choke on. 


Python3 should compile, pass most tests that are within spec for a UNIX of this age. As for testing I've picked out a few programs that should be tested:

Meson
Scons
Pocketchat

Maybe others. I'm not a regular python user. It's mostly for building stuff. I don't know as much about fixing broken python so this is a bit beyond me.

$200 paid within 30 days of completion.

[chulofiasco]

Ok, so yes, RSE has this, but we don't, and I think such a thing should be reasonably trivial for the right person. 

So this bounty has no extra bonuses, but its pretty simple:

Using no RSE components (it's absolutely fine to use or base your approach on patches they have used and I think they would agree that there's no big deal here) you will need to port a workable Python 3 to IRIX/MIPSPro.

If you need compatibility libraries, you can use my libxg library. I am not opposed to adding more functions that may be needed, see http://gitea.irixce.org/Raion/libxg for what it currently supports. Our only rule there is no modifications of stock system headers, unless it can be proven there's a mistake made in them that even MIPSPro would choke on. 


Python3 should compile, pass most tests that are within spec for a UNIX of this age. As for testing I've picked out a few programs that should be tested:

Meson
Scons
Pocketchat

Maybe others. I'm not a regular python user. It's mostly for building stuff. I don't know as much about fixing broken python so this is a bit beyond me.

$200 paid within 30 days of completion.

What about Qt5?

[Raion]

It's definitely something that I've considered but until I see a lot of applications that are worth using, QT4 is the limit because of text rendering issues. GTK2, 3 and QT5 either use harfbuzz or other text rendering algorithms that result in very bad performance on even the highest end SGIs.

In the future when I have a little bit more cash that's not being siphoned into the gallery project I will definitely be looking into more Motif or fltk stuff.

[flexion]

isn't the issue with QT5 also that it uses OpenGL features that are not available in the OpenGL version on SGI?

[Raion]

I actually don't know that much all I know is that none of these can use the hardware anti-aliasing features in SGI graphics, hence all that is banged out on the CPU.

Somebody with more authority on that willing to chime in is welcome to but I don't really have that high of an approval for bringing in QT/GTK shit anymore unless there's a good reason for it.

In any case I would ask that we would start a new thread on this, perhaps. Let's not clog up the Bounty too much but other people are always welcome to post their own bounties and I encourage that as well. I've not been able to develop anything to the point of release in the last year or so so I at least want to put my money where my mouth is with the community that's why I'm doing it.

One idea that I have been bike shedding but haven't posted anything on yet would be to start out with a modular email client daemon with a simple interface like the mail command on IRIX. We then would add a curses based and then Motif based UI to the list of goals as we funded more and more money towards it. Because this is a much larger program than most of this going on I haven't actually posted it yet because I want to get people who are interested in such a thing to perhaps pull their money together. And I'm more than happy to have somebody else handle the money if necessary for that such as maybe indiegogo I don't know. I also have aspirations to eventually get us a word processor and other things but I am a man of limited means and I think it's first important to start with the small stuff where we can actually build up a reputation for paying out our bounties and delivering on what we promise.

[jpstewart]

Several years ago, I built Python 3.2.2 for IRIX.  I still have my notes and patches from that project.  So if anybody wants to attempt 3.6+ I might be able to offer some assistance if you get stuck.

I don't know that I'd have time to tackle the whole project, so I'll leave the bounty open to somebody else.

[Raion]

http://gitea.irixce.org/TruHobbyist/Python-3.10.6

Paid Tru today. This is done! 3.10.6!!!

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[TruHobbyist]

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