Feature Requests item #1303434, was opened at 2005-09-24 19:30 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lylefile You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1303434&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Build Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Lyle Thompson (lylefile) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Please include pdb with windows distribution Initial Comment: Checking out the source files and rebuilding is not guaranteed to build a program database (pdb) file that represents the distribution python DLL. This may be due to a differences in the windows version or visual studio service pack on my system vs the one used to build the distribution, but tracking it down can be very time consuming. Including the pdb in the distribution should be trivial and avoid this problem entirely. Although I can fix the problem for future releases of our product, I am also supporting previous releases that included the standard DLL included in the distribution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Lyle Thompson (lylefile) Date: 2006-01-03 19:06 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1351115 A PDB file is required for debugging crash dumps from complex pythonic programs. This ability is absolutely critical for commercial programs using python. Technically, the crashes only happen within pyds or dlls, but it is often very vitally important to be able to find out what python code was being interpreted at the time. Unfortunately, I've even seen "pure" python crash in one of the supplied pyd's. Of course, the pdb file should be in a separate download, as few users require the ability to reverse engineer crash dumps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2005-12-28 00:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Update: distribution in a separate zipfile would be possible, provided that a patch to the build process (in Tools/msi/msi.py) would be contributed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2005-09-27 20:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Including the PDB files in the MSI is probably not acceptable to the majority of the users. python24.pdb is 3.5MiB in size, so the MSI file to download would grow considerably. Why do you need the PDB file in the first place? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1303434&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
