Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Michael Kearns wrote:
There are a few problems with this as I see it. In theory, the 'cost' of
MSVC 7.1 shouldn't be a problem for a big organisation. However, I
wouldn't expect to have to go and buy it purely because I'm developing
(perhaps) a shareware application using python - this isn't my case, but
I wasn't looking at it from just a big organisation perspective.

For developers that need msvcr71.dll on the target system which don't have a license to distribute it, the solution is simple: they just need to advise their users to install python-2.4.1.msi. This comes with msvcr71.dll included.

I believe there are no restrictions on us redistributing python-2.4.1.msi either, which would suggest that it could simply be included in an installer package, and perhaps the relevant DLLs could even be extracted from the msi file without having to install it... I seem to recall someone ;-) was making progress on an msi package for Python which might be capable of this too.

Of course then you'd need Python installed already in
order to install your application.  On the other hand,
you could always include a copy of Python 2.3 as well,
and use that to extract the DLLs from the MSI.

Or other equally insane approaches ...

-Peter
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