Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:55:53 GMT, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed >the following in comp.lang.python: > >> Having learned that lesson the hard way, I now keep a directory with zips >> and tarballs for all of the add-ins I have installed, and I maintain a >> single batch file that will install all of them. This also makes it >> trivially easy to install my environment on a different computer. > > Okay if one builds such from sources... but us poor Windows flunkies >without a build environment have to wait for some kindly soul to build >the installer compatible with the new Python version.
I run Windows. Only a fraction of the packages I've stored up actually require compiling anything. Further, as I understand it, Python 2.4 extensions can be built with the free "express edition" compiler from Microsoft. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
