[Python-Dev] Linking with mscvrt (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Feb 9 23:23:02 CET 2006

Neil Hodgson wrote:

COM was partly just a continuation of the practices used for controls, VBXs and other forms of extension. Visual Basic never forced use of a particular compiler or runtime library for extensions so why should Python?

Do you really not know? Because of API that happens to be defined the way it is.

Alas, it is not a cross-platform API. Standard C is cross-platform, so Python uses it in its own APIs.

The old (pre-XPCOM) Netscape plugin interface was cross-platform and worked with any compiler on Windows.

Yes, and consequently, it avoids using standard C library types throughout.

Regards, Martin

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