On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:48 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would really like to see this as release blocker, because the problem > > raised once in a while in the past and the windows people who are > > interested in getting console interface tools usually lack the knowledge > > of unix platform to do the task. > > It certainly can't be a release blocker: there is no accepted PEP > demanding it, it does not cause any crashes, and it is no regression > over earlier releases. > > For this to have any chance, it *must* work with Visual Studio. > Requiring gcc is unacceptable. > As for PDCurses library itself there is a Makefile in PDCurses distribution for Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0+ named vcwin32.mak I can't afford buying Visual Studio to test if it works with newer versions, but logically Visual Studio should be able to convert Makefile to a newer format. As for extension I've provided .bat file that uses GCC for compilation and I think I have some ancient Visual C++ compiler to make the similar .bat file for cl.exe. But I doubt I'll be able to provide a patch for Python build system to compile the module into windows distribution, because I do not have much experience with Python build system and with C linking/makefiles in general. I know that PDCurses must be added to externals/, but that's all. So even if can test and script Python part I am afraid I need help from someone with experience of Python+Make+Visual Studio. -- --anatoly t.
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