I have been informed that Guppy-PE (http://guppy-pe.sourceforge.net) has failed to compile its extension modules with a Microsoft .NET 2003 compiler under Windows 2000.
[To the person who informed me about this in an email per 27 Nov: Thanks for your message. I couldn't reply to you because your email address bounced my mail.] One of the problems, seems to be string constants in the C source that contain newlines. I am using GCC on Linux so, I missed this with the standard warning options. Compiling with -pedantic reveals 'a lot' of places where this is a problem. I could fix this but it takes some work and it makes the source code less readable so I was wondering ... Is this a common problem? Or maybe it is just the compiler version mentioned that doesn't handle it? Does someone know of some switch to enable the Microsoft compiler to accept strings with newlines? If so, the setup could perhaps be made to pass this switch to the compiler when building under Windows. Or else,.. somebody knows about a script to convert the files to the format the Microsoft compiler wants? I guess the build compilation could then be setup to pipe them through this or otherwise convert the files as needed. Otherwise, I guess I'll just have to hand-hack around this problem, write a conversion script, or whatever. I will see. Sorry for any inconvenience so far. Regards, Sverker Nilsson PS. I know it's not ANSI-correct but why do we have to work to make our source codes less clear? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list