Re: [Distutils] bdist_wininst compatibility with pythons and windows versions

2010-06-30 Thread Mark Hammond
On 26/06/2010 7:29 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: Mark, can you compile a list of features and windows/python version compatibility provided by each stub to evaluate what is the best stub to use with pure Python modules? As far as I know, the only issue you will find with ealier stubs is the ver

Re: [Distutils] bdist_wininst compatibility with pythons and windows versions

2010-06-26 Thread David Cournapeau
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 6:29 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: >>> >>> In addition bdist_wininst generates spurious warning about missing >>> "necessary compiler setting" when run on Linux with an instruction to >>> make sure win32* modules ar

Re: [Distutils] bdist_wininst compatibility with pythons and windows versions

2010-06-26 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:28 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > The choice of correct binary stub depends on compiler Python was built with - > this is what I would like to see in Python 2.7 even though it is probably > late. I meant - This is what I like to see changed in Python 2.7 for pure Pyt

Re: [Distutils] bdist_wininst compatibility with pythons and windows versions

2010-06-26 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: >> >> In addition bdist_wininst generates spurious warning about missing >> "necessary compiler setting" when run on Linux with an instruction to >> make sure win32* modules are installed (which are of course not). > > Use wine and the issue

Re: [Distutils] bdist_wininst compatibility with pythons and windows versions

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Hammond
On 11/06/2010 6:43 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Mark Hammond wrote: build_wininst code [1] function get_exe_bytes() used to fetch appropriate stub, doesn't seem to be cross-platform. Sorry, I must have misunderstood the original question - I was assuming the

Re: [Distutils] bdist_wininst compatibility with pythons and windows versions

2010-06-11 Thread David Cournapeau
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:43 PM, anatoly techtonik wrote: > > In addition bdist_wininst generates spurious warning about missing > "necessary compiler setting" when run on Linux with an instruction to > make sure win32* modules are installed (which are of course not). Use wine and the issue disa

Re: [Distutils] bdist_wininst compatibility with pythons and windows versions

2010-06-11 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Mark Hammond wrote: >> >> While Trac 0.12 is about to be released, there is some uncertainty >> whenever new Distutils-generated installers are compatible with old >> versions of Windows and Python. There are some fears that installers >> generated on Vista and Win

Re: [Distutils] bdist_wininst compatibility with pythons and windows versions

2010-06-07 Thread Mark Hammond
On 7/06/2010 1:16 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote: While Trac 0.12 is about to be released, there is some uncertainty whenever new Distutils-generated installers are compatible with old versions of Windows and Python. There are some fears that installers generated on Vista and Windows 7 won't run on

[Distutils] bdist_wininst compatibility with pythons and windows versions

2010-06-06 Thread anatoly techtonik
While Trac 0.12 is about to be released, there is some uncertainty whenever new Distutils-generated installers are compatible with old versions of Windows and Python. There are some fears that installers generated on Vista and Windows 7 won't run on XP or 2000. Is that true? Also is there a limit