Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I think the best lesson here is Tcl. Because it uses stubs mechanism, >> you don't need to depend on tclXX.dll, you don't deal with really >> direct implementation details, you don't care about runtimes, >> everything is much easier. Maybe it's possible (and not too late) for >> Python to somehow embrace such mechanism? > > It would be possible, but it would be a fairly large project. You would > have to remove a lot of things from the Python header files, and that > would cause significant breakage in existing extension modules.
Hmm, would it? I mean, you can currently build extensions with MinGW (at least from what I heard, I never managed to do so as it would require cross compiling for Windows), so why would you say you'd have to update the header files? Stefan _______________________________________________ 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
