[Bob Kline] > Earlier this month, Tim P. wrote: > >> Semi-unfortunately, the author of that [bzip2] has >> >> no idea if it actually works on 95/98/ME/NT/XP >> >> and in the docs for "3.8 Making a Windows DLL" >> >> I haven't tried any of this stuff myself, but it all looks >> plausible. >> >> That means it will require some real work to build and test this >> stuff on 6 flavors of Windows. Not a showstopper, but does raise >> the bar for getting into the PLabs Windows distro. > Sorry if I'm way off base here, but does the underlying bzip2 package > have to be in a DLL, or can't that be built as a static library, which > gets linked into the .pyd, which *is* a DLL? In either case, it doesn't > seem like it would be very difficult to create whatever flavor library > is needed. The code for bzip2 seems to be very portably written. > > The python-bz2 code, on the other hand, needed a little bit of tweaking > to make it compile with Microsoft's compiler. > > I'll be happy to help in whatever way would be useful in dealing with > the "raised bar," as the prospect of having Python support on all > platforms for bz2 compression (and tarfiles) is very appealing. This work has already been completed; current CVS Python has full bz2 support for Windows.
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