Hi, are there any guidelines about what to do if a Windows extension for Python 2.4 requires the C++ runtime (msvcp71.dll)? If I want to distribute a binary installer of an extension that contains C++ code, should I really include the msvcp71.dll in the package? It doesn't sound like a good idea to me if every package places another copy of this dll somewhere in the Python directory. Python 2.4 does install the C runtime (msvcr71.dll) in the Windows system32 directory, doesn't it? (btw, shouldn't this be installed in the Python directory instead?) So would it be possible that future Python releases would also install the C++ runtime? I think it's better if the dll would only be installed once by Python instead of several times by every extension that uses C++.
Currently, I do not package the C++ runtime and leave it up to the user to install the dll if it isn't already somewhere on his system. But this really is not a satisfying solution... - Matthias - -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
