> > > 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. > > > > If you could get Python from CVS, build it with MSVC 6.0 for Windows > > (elaborate instructions are in PCBuild/readme.txt!!!), and see if > > the bz2 module works on all flavors of Windows to which you have > > access, that would be tremendously helpful IMO. > > If MSVC 7.0 isn't at least as good, I'll find a machine which still has > 6.0 on it (or reinstall it on one of our development systems), but I > pulled down the sources from CVS and built it with MSC++ 7 and the all > 28 tests in the bz2 test suite pass on both Windows 2000 and Windows XP. > Should I dig up a MSC6 system, or is this just as good? More testing is always welcome; if you could test-drive the instructions in PCbuild/readme.txt for Tcl/Tk and Sleepycat Berkeley DB on multiple platforms that would be super. I have understood (from Tim, again) that we can't upgrade to MSVC 7.0, because the runtime is incompatible in some places, and we don't want to break existing add-on distributions that are compiled with 6.0 -- not every open source developer can afford to upgrade. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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