[Python-Dev] Re: Timing for Py2.4 (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Tue Mar 30 15:02:48 EST 2004

Paul Moore <pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes:

I'll try to add a 2.4 binary to the next ctypes release That would be good. although I'm not completely sure that bdistwininst works with 2.4. Ouch. One other thought I had, based on some comments from Gareth, was that getting distutils to work with the free MS compilers would be good. I'm not sure what would be involved, or if I could help (I'm not familiar with the distutils code, though...)

Do you mean building the wininst.exe template with other compilers? Shouldn't be needed, because the binaries are also in CVS.

IIRC, I had some problems using bdistwininst with the now current zlib 1.2.1. I could do the same for pywin32 (although I don't have the more exotic SDK's installed, and I don't build autoduck docs). At one stage Mark Hammond was producing snapshot preview builds of pywin32 for Python 2.3. Maybe he would be willing to do the same for 2.4? Getting pywin32 binaries for 2.4 would make it much more viable for Windows users to try out 2.4.

This should be much easier than before now that pywin32 is built with distutils.

Thomas

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