Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-05-02 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Thu, 01 May 2008 09:09:21 -0300, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: illume schrieb: Has anyone tested the new python binaries that link to msvcr90.dll on win9x machines? It doesn't matter to use because Python 2.6 and 3.0 require at least Windows 2000 SP4. The 9x, ME and NT s

Re: dropping win98 support? was Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-05-02 Thread Christian Heimes
illume schrieb: > There are still *lots* of people who still use win95, 98, 98se, me, > and win2k - as shown by the statistics I linked to in a previous > post. If you want more statistics about the number of people using > what OS they are fairly easy to find with a search engine. One day > win9

Re: dropping win98 support? was Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-05-02 Thread illume
On May 2, 8:37 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "illume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Ah, why is that? > > Were any of the reasons given inhttp://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/ > unclear? > It appears you are already aware of MS's non-support

Re: dropping win98 support? was Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-05-01 Thread Terry Reedy
"illume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Ah, why is that? Were any of the reasons given in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/ unclear? It appears you are already aware of MS's non-support of Win98 | Seems like a lot of people using it, so it's still worthwhil

dropping win98 support? was Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-05-01 Thread illume
Ah, why is that? There's still at least 1.1% of people using win98, if you believe this source of stats: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp I just noticed that win9x winme and win nt are all being dropped from python. I know they are old and crufty, but there's still heaps of peop

Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-05-01 Thread Christian Heimes
illume schrieb: > Hi, > > after a little research it appears that win9x is not supported by the > msvcr90.dll run time. > > Can you confirm this Lenard? > > Has anyone tested the new python binaries that link to msvcr90.dll on > win9x machines? It doesn't matter to use because Python 2.6 and 3.

Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-04-30 Thread illume
hi again, I should have said, the msvcr90.dll does not work on win9x machines - as well as not being supported by ms. cu, On May 1, 4:02 pm, illume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > after a little research it appears that win9x is not supported by the > msvcr90.dll run time. > > Can you co

Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-04-30 Thread illume
Hi, after a little research it appears that win9x is not supported by the msvcr90.dll run time. Can you confirm this Lenard? Has anyone tested the new python binaries that link to msvcr90.dll on win9x machines? cheers, On May 1, 3:05 pm, "L. Lindstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L. Lindst

Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-04-30 Thread L. Lindstrom
L. Lindstrom wrote: Christian Heimes wrote: L. Lindstrom schrieb: [snip] [B]esides heap management and FILE pointers, is there any reason SDL, or any C dependency, needs to link to the same C run-time as Python? If I ensure SDL frees memory it allocates and does not directly access a file open

Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-04-30 Thread L. Lindstrom
sturlamolden wrote: On Apr 30, 8:06 pm, "L. Lindstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have read that Python extension modules must link to the same C run-time as the Python interpreter. This I can appreciate. But does this requirement extend to the C libraries an extension module wraps. This so

Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-04-30 Thread L. Lindstrom
Christian Heimes wrote: L. Lindstrom schrieb: I have read that Python extension modules must link to the same C run-time as the Python interpreter. This I can appreciate. But does this requirement extend to the C libraries an extension module wraps. The case in point is Pygame and SDL. The Pygam

Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-04-30 Thread sturlamolden
On Apr 30, 8:06 pm, "L. Lindstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read that Python extension modules must link to the same C > run-time as the Python interpreter. This I can appreciate. But does this > requirement extend to the C libraries an extension module wraps. This somewhat of a miscon

Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-04-30 Thread Christian Heimes
L. Lindstrom schrieb: > I have read that Python extension modules must link to the same C > run-time as the Python interpreter. This I can appreciate. But does this > requirement extend to the C libraries an extension module wraps. The > case in point is Pygame and SDL. The Pygame extension modules

Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

2008-04-30 Thread L. Lindstrom
I have read that Python extension modules must link to the same C run-time as the Python interpreter. This I can appreciate. But does this requirement extend to the C libraries an extension module wraps. The case in point is Pygame and SDL. The Pygame extension modules are built with distutils,