[Python-Dev] PEP 3149 thoughts (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 10:25:14 CEST 2010

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Ralf Schmitt <ralf at brainbot.com> wrote:

Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes:

Section added: Windows ======= This PEP only addresses build issues on POSIX systems that use the configure script.  While Windows or other platform support is not explicitly disallowed under this PEP, platform expertise is needed in order to evaluate, describe, and implement support on such platforms. It is not currently clear that the facilities in this PEP are even useful for Windows. If it's useful on unix like systems, why shouldn't it be useful on windows? Multiple versions of python can be installed on windows too. And people might also like to share their packages between installations.

Platform mindset. Windows has a history of duplication of files to avoid dependency management (even the C runtime is typically duplicated on disk for each application that uses it).

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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