Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [David Abrahams] >> For years, Boost.Python has been doing some hacks to work around the >> fact that a Windows Python distro doesn't include the debug build of >> the library. >> ... >> MS is recommending that we (Boost) start distributing a debug build of the >> Python DLL with Boost, but Boost really seems like the wrong place to host >> such a thing. Is there any way Python.org can make a debug build more >> accessible? > > Possibly. I don't do this anymore (this == build the Python Windows > installers), but I used to. For some time I also made available a zip > file containing various debug-build bits, captured at the time the > official installer was built. We didn't (and I'm sure we still don't) > want to include them in the main installer, because they bloat its > size for something most users truly do not want. > > I got sick of building the debug zip file, and stopped doing that too. > No two users wanted the same set of stuff in it, so it grew to > contain the union of everything everyone wanted, and then people > complained that it was "too big". This is one of the few times in > your Uncle Timmy's life that he said "so screw it -- do it yourself, > you whiny baby whiners with your incessant baby whining you " ;-) > > Based on that sure-to-be universal reaction from anyone who signs up > for this, I'd say the best thing you could do to help it along is to > define precisely (a) what an acceptable distribution format is; and, > (b) what exactly it should contain.
Who knows what the whiny babies will accept? That said, I think people would be happy with a .zip file containing whatever is built by selecting the debug build in the VS project and asking it to build everything. (**) > That, and being nice to Martin, I'm always as nice as Davidly possible to Martin! > would go a long way. My fingers and toes are crossed. Thanks! (**) If you could build the ability to download the debugging binaries into the regular installer, that would be the shiznit, but I don't dare ask for it. ;-) -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
