On 4/21/10 7:59 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message<mailman.1949.1271443668.23598.python-l...@python.org>, "Martin
v. Löwis" wrote:
Brian Blais wrote:
On Apr 12, 2010, at 16:36 , Martin v. Loewis is wrote:
If you are planning to build Python extension modules in the next five
years, I recommend that you obtain a copy of VS Express
Am I missing something here? I have heard this before, but I have built
extension modules many times under windows (using Cython) and never once
used a MS product.
It's fine if your package supports being compiled with Mingw32. A lot of
source code can't be compiled this way, either because gcc doesn't
support some of the MS extensions (in particular wrt. COM) ...
But then such code will not be portable to anything but Windows.
Most of such code is for Windows-specific services anyways.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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