Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-30 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <530938a5-d865-4228-8d4a-402a39941...@k36g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > Sure beats having to recompile a kernel to support 3rd party audio > drivers. Which is a less fraught process than {B7C0D3A0-F949-44AD-ACE5-FB845B8C1EB7} ing Registry edits, don’t you thin? Y

Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-27 Thread Lie Ryan
On 04/27/10 08:41, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > Although I agree, moving away from VS would be nice. Since Unladen > Swallow will eventually be merged with Python, will the dev team > consider trying out Clang as an alternative to VS? What would Unladen Swallow brings that would allow the development

Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-26 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On Apr 26, 12:16 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > Just been looking at this review of Visual Studio 2010 > : > >     ... the 2GB ISO was quicker to download than it was to install - not >     even counting the several reboots required. > >

Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-26 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Just been looking at this review of Visual Studio 2010 : ... the 2GB ISO was quicker to download than it was to install - not even counting the several reboots required. Since when do you need to REBOOT just to install a developm

Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-22 Thread Robert Kern
On 4/21/10 7:59 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message, "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

Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-21 Thread Martin v. Loewis
>> ... or because Mingw32 doesn't provide the header files (in particular >> wrt. C++), or because linking with a library is necessary that uses the >> MSVC mangling, not the g++ one (again, for C++). > > Again, that would be code that’s not portable off Windows. Probably (although it *is* possib

Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-21 Thread Martin v. Loewis
>> ... or because Mingw32 doesn't provide the header files (in particular >> wrt. C++), or because linking with a library is necessary that uses the >> MSVC mangling, not the g++ one (again, for C++). > > Again, that would be code that’s not portable off Windows. Probably (although it *is* possib

Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-21 Thread David Cournapeau
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> ... or because Mingw32 doesn't provide the header files (in particular >> wrt. C++), or because linking with a library is necessary that uses the >> MSVC mangling, not the g++ one (again, for C++). > > Again, that would be code that’s

Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-21 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <4bc8547...@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, Lie Ryan wrote: > ... so you should get the full installer if you want to insure yourself > from Microsoft pulling the plug out. I wonder how many Windows users will be able to figure that out... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Download Proprietary Microsoft Products Now

2010-04-21 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message , "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