Rob Hamerling wrote :

> Byron A Jeff wrote:
>
> > The ZPL loader is written in Python. It's already cross
> > platform and runs under Windows, Linux, or anything else
> > that runs python and has a serial port.
>
> There is a Python for my platform (PC + OS/2), and my system
> has serial ports, nevertheless I cannot use XWisp or ZPL!!!
> A platform dependent Python extension seems to be required to
> let it talk to a serial port. Please tell me where I can find this
> extension for OS/2?

Hi.
IMHO, a simple command line tool (just as ZPL and XWisp are)
written in ANSI compliant C, would have as much cross
plattform compatibility as ZPL and XWisp has today.
In both cases I'd expect *some* platform dependant code
anyway. And I'd expect C compilers to be available on more
platforms then Python, but I might very well be wrong here.

And just getting rid of those several thousands of files
installed with the Python kit, would be nice.

But, as usual, it's always easy to have opinions on
others work, right ? :-) :-)

Have a nice weekend !

Jan-Erik.



>
> Regards, Rob.
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