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

Paul Moore pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Mar 28 09:37:52 EST 2004

"Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> writes:

1) "Baking" is not happening. There are only a tiny handful of us actively developing and using Py2.4. Move the release date back five months and that's five more months that no one is looking at the product. The best way to get people exercise the code base is to have an alpha release.

On Windows, the killer issue is the availability of pywin32. I don't believe you'll get much take-up of Python 2.4 by Windows users without a pywin32 binary release. Is there any chance of prevailing upon Mark to produce a 2.4-compatible binary?

I'll see how I can do building other modules using mingw, and put the results on a web page somewhere.

[Later...] Not much luck so far. cx_Oracle won't build with mingw (MSVC-specific library headers). Nor will ctypes (MSVC-specific code). Pysqlite will. I'm not even going to try wxPython, as I'd need to build wxWindows with mingw - it's apparently possible, but looks like a lot of work (and I don't use wxPython much). I'm scared of trying PIL - I found it hard enough with MSVC thanks to all the graphics library dependencies.

I'd advocate an early alpha for another reason - Windows binary builders will need as much time as possible to work through any issues with the new requirement for MSVC7.

Paul.

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