Wow! I must say, I'm less than impressed with the responses so far. I know Ilias can give the impression that he is just trolling, but I can assure you he is not. At least, not in this case. ;-)
He deserves what he gets. He appears to put no effort in, other than to
o Write his own document for his own needs that no one else is interested in
o Answer people's comments to him in a way that does not demonstrate he has put any effort in.
o Based on his answers it seems pretty clear to me (and it seems many others) that he has not put any effort in and has no intention of doing so.
In addition, there are some unresolved licensing questions concerning the .NET runtime file for extensions (msvcr71.dll):
To quote that URL; <QUOTE> The 2.4 python.org installer installs msvcr71.dll on the target system.
If someone uses py2exe or a similar tool to create a frozen application, is he allowed to redistribute this msvcr71.dll to other users together with his application or not, even if he doesn't own MSVC? </END QUOTE>
msvcr71.dll is a redistributable for applications written using their compiler. You can redistribute that. If that answer is not good enough for you there is now a free version of Microsofts Visual Studio called Visual Studio Express (downloadable from the Microsoft's website). This DLL is (to my understanding) part of Visual Studio 7.1 and Visual Studio Express.
No licensing problem exists. Microsoft will not get upset about msvcr71.dll being distributed. They will if you distribute msvcr71d.dll though - don't do that!
I'm not a lawyer, so take this as you would any other free advice and download Visual Studio Express and read the redistribution sections in the license/help file to verify. Alternatively search msdn.microsoft.com for "redistributable".
Look at this from Microsoft's perspective - Python is a language that can be used on Windows operating systems. msvcr71.dll is required to make some versions of Python work. Microsoft are not stupid - they know that to encourage uptake of their OS they shouldn't put needless restrictions on certain technology - the C runtime being on of those technologies. It is in Microsoft's own best interests to allow msvcr71.dll to be used for Python.
users. I can't expect them to purchase a .NET compiler or go through a
See above.
Regards
Stephen -- Stephen Kellett Object Media Limited http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk RSI Information: http://www.objmedia.demon.co.uk/rsi.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
