Neil Hodgson wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg: > >> Is it possible to have multiple versions of the lib C loaded >> on Windows ? > > Yes. It is possible not only to mix C runtimes from different > vendors but different variants from a single vendor. > > Historically, each vendor has shipped their own C runtime > libraries. This was also the case with CP/M and OS/2. > > Many applications can be extended with DLLs and if it were not > possible to load DLLs which use different runtimes then that would > limit which compilers can be used to extend particular applications. > If Microsoft were to stop DLLs compiled with Borland or Intel from > working inside Internet Explorer or Excel then there would be > considerable controversy and likely anti-trust actions.
Thanks for the feedback. This sounds like the issues such a mix can cause are mostly theoretical and don't really bother much in practice, so PEP 384 on Windows does have a chance :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 27 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2010-08-19: Released mxODBC 3.1.0 http://python.egenix.com/ 2010-09-15: DZUG Tagung, Dresden, Germany 18 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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