Re: Upgrading Python Article

2004-12-18 Thread Tim Roberts
JanC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tim Roberts schreef: > >> I don't think that's fair. Visual C++ 7.1 is signficantly better at >> compliance than their past compilers. > >AFAIK that's only for C++, not for C...? Yes. Microsoft has largely chosen to ignore C99. According to the Visual Studio te

Re: Upgrading Python Article

2004-12-16 Thread JanC
Tim Roberts schreef: > I don't think that's fair. Visual C++ 7.1 is signficantly better at > compliance than their past compilers. AFAIK that's only for C++, not for C...? -- JanC "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - secti

Re: Upgrading Python Article

2004-12-11 Thread Tim Roberts
JanC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Fuzzyman schreef: > >> On the other hand the microsoft >> compiler is *better* than gcc anyway :-) > >It's better at optimising, but it doesn't support standard C & C++. ;-) I don't think that's fair. Visual C++ 7.1 is signficantly better at compliance than thei

Re: Upgrading Python Article

2004-12-09 Thread JanC
Fuzzyman schreef: > On the other hand the microsoft > compiler is *better* than gcc anyway :-) It's better at optimising, but it doesn't support standard C & C++. ;-) -- JanC "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.

Re: Upgrading Python Article

2004-12-09 Thread Fuzzyman
Sure - I don't really *blame* windoze for the problem. It's just more of a pain upgrading python version on windows. As I said it's given me an opportunity to work out which extension modules I'm really using ! In actual fact I admire windows, there's an awful lot that goes on beneath the hood. Mi

Re: Upgrading Python Article

2004-12-07 Thread Jive
I had to back out of 2.4. In time I'll upgrade. It's not really fair to blame windoze for the incompatibility. It is possible to make software backward compatible with shared libraries. But you need a plan. The windoze plan is based on COM in its various guises. Of course, it's not standard o

Upgrading Python Article

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Foord
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/upgrading_python.html I've been looking at whether to upgrade immediately from Python 2.3 to Python 2.4 or postpone it. This is my first `major version change`, so I've come up against the usual windoze (tm) problem - upgrading python breaks all my exten