Have you made some benchmarks like pystone? Cheers, Cesare
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 08:50PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > this is a progress report on compiling python using entirely free > software tools, no proprietary compilers or operating systems > involved, yet still linking and successfully running with msvcr80 > assemblies. manifests and rc files, which are compiled to internal > resources, have been added. > various sections which are uniquely identifed by _MSC_VER >= 1400 etc > have had to be enabled with corresponding MSVCRT_VERSION >= 0x0800 - > in particular, signal handling (PyOS_getsig()). > > currently, under wine with msvcr80, there looks like there is a bug > with a common theme related to threads, but here's a short list: > test_array.py is blocking, test_bz2.py is hanging and test_cmd_line.py > causes a segfault; test_ctypes is _still_ a bundle of fun. for those > people who use native win32 platforms who are compiling up this code, > you should have better luck. > > significantly, the wine developers have been absolutely fantastic, and > have fixed several bugs in wine, sometimes within hours, that were > found as a result of running the extremely comprehensive python > regression tests. > > the python regression tests are a credit to the collaborative > incremental improvement process of free software development. > > i look forward to seeing the same incremental improvement applied to > the development of python, evidence of which would be clearly seen by > the acceptance of one of the following patches, one of which is dated > 2003: > http://bugs.python.org/issue3754 > http://bugs.python.org/issue841454 > http://bugs.python.org/issue3871 > http://bugs.python.org/issue4954 > http://bugs.python.org/issue5010 > > for those people wishing to track and contribute to the development of > python for win32 using entirely free software tools, either under wine > or native windows, there is a git repository, here, slightly > illogically named pythonwine because that's where i started from > (cross-compiling python under wine, so i could get at the wine > registry from python). obviously, since then, things have... moved on > :) > > http://github.com/lkcl/pythonwine/tree/python_2.5.2_wine > > l. > _______________________________________________ > 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/cesare.dimauro%40a-tono.com > > _______________________________________________ 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
