> I think in this age of virtual machines I would just install a > separate Windows virtual machine with Visual Studio 6. The next > question is, do you have any advice how can I get Visual Studio 6?
I don't want to sound insensitive, but why are you spending *any* time on getting it compiled for python 2.3 on windows? Consider this: 1. the Windows world works very differently than unix. As I mentioned it before, it is trivial to install a newer python version (and by the way Marek that is not the same thing as using a package manager to install python with a number of dependencies thus ending up with multiple versions of sqlite, Tk, bsddb etc). Unlike linux where upon an upgrade you may accidentally mess up important tools that happen to be implemented in python (I do manage a few linux servers at work so I know about this first hand) in windows getting the latest python is a matter of seconds, and you get a completely isolated, self contained python running. I have non-expert students come in and if they have a windows laptop the first thing I tell them to install python and they can always do it right away. This is something that rarely works for either linux or mac. 2. Windows machines are replaced far more often because they are cheaper and for more casual use. Recent office and other software will not work on older machines, thus makes owning them pointless, and the chance of having a five(!) year old windows machine that still has 2.3 installed (plus that you would not be allowed to install 2.5) is probably zero. So why bother? 3. we all have more things to do than time, so the primary way to manage that is to decide what does not get done. It is a zero sum game, when you work on one feature it means something else does not get done. best, Istvan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pygr-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to pygr-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pygr-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pygr-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
