On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Ralf Schmitt <ralf at brainbot.com> wrote: > Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes: > >> >> Section added: >> >> Windows >> ======= >> >> This PEP only addresses build issues on POSIX systems that use the >> ``configure`` script. While Windows or other platform support is not >> explicitly disallowed under this PEP, platform expertise is needed in >> order to evaluate, describe, and implement support on such platforms. >> It is not currently clear that the facilities in this PEP are even >> useful for Windows. >> > > If it's useful on unix like systems, why shouldn't it be useful on > windows? Multiple versions of python can be installed on windows > too. And people might also like to share their packages between > installations. Platform mindset. Windows has a history of duplication of files to avoid dependency management (even the C runtime is typically duplicated on disk for each application that uses it). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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