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[John Arbash Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel пишет:
>> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>>> Ian Clatworthy пишет:
>>>> Assuming everyone who wanted to voice an opinion on what installers are
>>>> required has done so, the time has come IMO for some follow-up action.
>>>> Here are the next steps I'd like to see happen:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Someone volunteers to summarise the consensus and list any
>>>>    outstanding issues to be decided or further investigated.
>>> I have troubles to see consensus, but Ian said there should be one.
>>> So I'll try to list replies.
>>>
> 
>>> f) x64 support: require Python 2.6 as strong dependency. But x86
>>> (32-bit) works just fine on Python 2.5. What is idea? Push bzr.exe to
>>> use Python 2.6? It will definitely require MSVC 2008 to build C
>>> extensions, I don't know is MinGW can link against newer run time libs.
>>> Somebody should test to build bzr C extensions either with MinGW + Py
>>> 2.6 or with MSVC Express Edition. (But TBZR anyway require MSVC 2008
>>> full edition). Separate installers for x86 and x64 or put everything
>>> together?
>>
>> We can, and do, build the windows extensions using MinGW for python2.6.
>> It seems it is only Microsoft compilers that have trouble compiling
>> against different versions of the Microsoft runtime... :)
> 
> Well, I hope everything is OK then. In the past I've told that C
> extension should be linked against exactly the same msvcrt library that
> Python is built otherwise there is possible very bad runtime crashes
> when manipulation with OS file handles are performed. Maybe this sort of
> issues is not the problem for bzr.
> 
> 

That is very true. The main thing is that Mingw has figured out how to
do this. (Or at least always links against a really old version that is
known to be available.) I haven't yet figured out a way to tell Visual
Studio 2008 to build against the 2003 libraries. (For python <= 2.5)

John
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