Re: [Python-Dev] PEP: Adding data-type objects to Python

2006-10-31 Thread Stephan Tolksdorf
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Travis Oliphant schrieb: Function pointers are supported with the void data-type and could be more specifically supported if it were important. People typically don't use the buffer protocol to send function-pointers around in a way that the void description

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 extensions require VC 7.1?

2006-06-17 Thread Stephan Tolksdorf
One reason for not switching to VC 8, which hasn't yet been explicitly mentioned here, is that MinGW does not yet easily support linking to the msvcr80 runtime library. Some C extension modules, for instance those in SciPy, are primarily developed under Linux with GCC and hence are most easily