Martin v. Löwis: > COM really solves all problems people might have on Windows.
COM was partly just a continuation of the practices used for controls, VBXs and other forms of extension. Visual Basic never forced use of a particular compiler or runtime library for extensions so why should Python? It was also easy to debug an extension DLL inside release-mode VB (I can't recall if debug versions of VB were ever readily available) which is something that is more difficult than it should be for Python. > Alas, it is not a cross-platform API. Standard C is cross-platform, > so Python uses it in its own APIs. The old (pre-XPCOM) Netscape plugin interface was cross-platform and worked with any compiler on Windows. Neil _______________________________________________ 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
