[Python-Dev] The other Py2.4 issue (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Sat Dec 11 17:55:16 CET 2004

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:19:10PM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

>>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041676.html > >Shouldn't this be distributed with binary distributions of Python, to save >people the trouble?

The Python developers who produce the Windows binaries don't use mingw/cygwin, so this would put a maintenance burden on them.

This thread started as "how to convince people to build their extension modules quickly for Python 2.4". I was just suggesting that taking a bit of that burden away from us non-Windows-users would be helpful :-)

>Or, if it can be skipped, the procedure for doing a mingw build with the >.lib should be documented and that'd be the end of it.

It's actually documented now, in the "Installing Python Modules" manual.

Oh right... Well, I didn't notice because, oddly, there is another set of pages on the same subject (but with different details and up-to-date-ness)
in "Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter".

I guess that one of them should be removed and point to the other...

A bientot,

Armin.

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