On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Michael Abshoff <mabsh...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Darren Dale <dsdal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Charlie Moad <cwm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> >> First of all let me apologize for the problems we have been
> >> seeing with the binaries as of late. Frankly the root of the problem
> >> might be my detachment from the matplotlib source for some time.
> >> Unfortunately due to my time constraints, this won't be changing soon.
> >> I used to think being somewhat on the outside helped me keep the ease
> >> of the build process in check. This gap has apparently grown too
> >> wide.
> >
> > I appreciate that this is a difficult task and that you have plenty of
> other
> > responsibilities, and appreciate your effort. However, I've been trying
> to
> > get to the bottom of why the windows installer is overwriting configobj
> and
> > I could use some feedback from you. I really need to know whether you
> delete
> > the build/ directory before creating a new installer.
> >
> >>
> >> Moving ahead, python 2.6 and 3.0 are going to pose new challenges
> >> since they require new versions of visual studio I do not have access
> >> to.
> >
> > I think 2.6 and 3.0 were both compiled with Visual C++ 2008, and so the
> free
> > Visual C++ 2008 express can be used to create extension modules.
>
> The express edition can only produce 32 bit binaries, but I guess this
> is better than nothing.
>
According to wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express) :
"natively compiling 64-bit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit>applications through the IDE is
not supported. If the freely available Windows
SDK <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SDK> is installed, 64-bit
applications can be built on the command line using the x64 cross-compiler
(Cl.exe) supplied with the SDK." The documentation at python.org does not
indicate whether or not it is possible to cross-compile with the express
edition if the Windows SDK is installed (
http://docs.python.org/distutils/builtdist.html#cross-compiling-on-windows)
>
> > I the past
> > I have built and distributed extension modules built with mingw32 on
> windows
> > XP, but I have not been able to put together a working mingw32/msys on a
> > 64-bit windows vista machine. This is my only windows computer, so it
> looks
> > like I will only be supporting py2.6 in the near future.
>
> Since numpy 1.3 (probably out January 2009) will start supporting
> python 2.6 and official Python 3k support for numpy is currently
> anticipated not for a while I would guess Python 3k support is a
> non-issue for now. OTOH the many Python libraries depending on numpy
> might make Python 3K support happen sooner.
>
Last I heard, the numpy folks think py-3 support is at least a year out.
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