Hi Chimezie,

Thanks for your summary (my comments below).
I have my rdflib-nosparql work-around until some nice
volunteer with a windows build environment comes along.

Chimezie Ogbuji wrote:
> ... I have access to environments to build for every scenario
> 'except' windows (particulalry because I've never done it before and
> the prospect of VC++ or any alternative is daunting for the distutil
> novice that I am).

Hey, join the club!  I blanche at the thought.
Over the weekend I started reading the docs for MinGW ...
sheesh!  Seems like a black hole ... ;)

> So, anybody who has such an environment could help build binaries for 
> Windows
> 
> I'm told it's a pretty fool-proof process once you have the proper
> build environment.

heh heh ... kind of reminds of that Steve Martin routine:
"YOU can have a MILLION DOLLARS and NEVER pay taxes!!!
First, get a million dollars ..."  :)

> It's a tough call, because what you lose in no longer having a pure
> python library you gain in having a self-sufficient parser and fully
> complilant (w/out any third-party dependency)

I don't have a problem not having a pure python library -- hell,
I use wxPython!  :)  For parsing, I can understand that
performance benefits could make a C extension worthwhile.

Cheers,
Steve
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