Sure - I don't really *blame* windoze for the problem. It's just more of a pain upgrading python version on windows. As I said it's given me an opportunity to work out which extension modules I'm really using !
In actual fact I admire windows, there's an awful lot that goes on beneath the hood. Microsofts dubious business practises mean that they get a lot of stick - but windows is very sophisticated. It is produced with a different ethos though, not *just* the fact that it is closed source. It is designed for users, whereas Lunix is designed for programmers. This means that setting up a compiler isn't a straightforward process (See the references in the article). Microsoft do now give away their .NET optimising compiler - but distutils can't be configured to use it without hacking into it. This means it's more tricky than configuring distutils to use gcc from mingw. I'm still not sure whether that will work for python 2.4 - I had got the impression it wouldn't. On the other hand the microsoft compiler is *better* than gcc anyway :-) Regards, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
