"Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> writes: > [Thomas Heller] >> Sigh. >> >> The 2.3.2 windows binary contains invalid MS dlls. > > Oops. Guido can tell you how anal I was about this, but I don't think it > ever got documented. Sorry! It's why the Wise script has C:\Code\MSDLLs as > a choice for where to get redistributables from. I was probably confused because it had C:\Windows\System also ;-(. I will change the WISE script to remove these, and update the relevant PEPs so that this (hopefully) doesn't happen again. >> I copied them from my system directory, instead of using those of the >> MSVC 6 SP5 redistributables. > > That's a good choice. Apparently not - they were XP specific. > I can't find it now, but somewhere in the MS > gigabytes of stuff is a list of which versions of these guys are > redistributable. Sometimes a service pack will install one that isn't > *generally* usable, because it relies on other stuff installed by the same > service pack. These oddballs often show up in security patches, where > they're seemingly ramming out a fix as fast as possible. > >> Strongy affected are probably win98 and NT4 users. > > The happier news is that I've got 2.3.2 on two Win98SE boxes with no ill > effects. I keep these scrupulously up-to-date, though. See the bug reports I mentioned to find out what happened to other people <0.0 wink>. Apologies to everyone suffering from my fault. Thomas
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