Christopher wrote:
Yes. It's too much effort to build, and too few users that actually
use it. Users are still free to build it themselves, and to share
the build with others.
I guess that I don't understand why you feel there is so much effort
involved. I developed a set of makefiles that build Python and all
dependencies from the command line using nmake. The only thing you
have to do is specify debug and cpu. The rest is taken care of by the
Makefiles. Of course, this dev setup uses VS 2005, but it could be
made to work with VS 2008 with little trouble. The setup is designed
to cross compile the x64 and ia64 architectures.
Martin builds two tested installer/uninstallers that work on nt, xp, and
vista and include IDLE and docs as Microsoft Help files. The 2.6 doc
change apparently required changes in the doc build, and 3.0 changes
changed something about IDLE. To me, that seems enough for one volunteer.
tjr
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