Hi, On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:19:10PM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: > >>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041676.html > > > >Shouldn't this be distributed with binary distributions of Python, to save > >people the trouble? > > The Python developers who produce the Windows binaries don't use > mingw/cygwin, so this would put a maintenance burden on them.
This thread started as "how to convince people to build their extension modules quickly for Python 2.4". I was just suggesting that taking a bit of that burden away from us non-Windows-users would be helpful :-) > >Or, if it can be skipped, the procedure for doing a mingw build with the > >.lib should be documented and that'd be the end of it. > > It's actually documented now, in the "Installing Python Modules" manual. Oh right... Well, I didn't notice because, oddly, there is another set of pages on the same subject (but with different details and up-to-date-ness) in "Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter". I guess that one of them should be removed and point to the other... A bientot, Armin. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
