On Wednesday 08 October 2008 09:44:25 David Cournapeau wrote: > For one, the manifest madness introduced with VS 2005 may be painful to > handle, since it severly lacks any serious documentation. I am still > unsure whether we will need to care at all, though. > > Another problem is that python headers are not "clean", they pollute the > namespace quite heavily; a new version of python means new names added: > those should be trivial, though. > > Other things are the usual: brokenness of MS tools with respect to > standards (basic C99 functions not available, etc...). Every version of > MS tool is broken, but in a different way.
The reasons above are why I don't try to do anything on Windows unless there is support from some external source, e.g., CMake taking care of build issues. The reasons above are also why I admire your heroic efforts at making Windows binaries available. But, then, I sometimes wonder about the motivation for an unpaid volunteer to take on an utterly thankless job in which help is never forthcoming from users; for any of my code out in the wild, the only help, bug fixes and improvements I have ever received have been from Linux and Solris users. Thank for taking on this arduous task. Regards, Ravi _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
