[Python-Dev] Linking with mscvrt

[Neil Hodgson]

Greg Ewing:

> But that won't help when you need to deal with third-party
> code that knows nothing about Python or its wrapped file
> objects, and calls the CRT (or one of the myriad extant
> CRTs, chosen at random:-) directly.

   Can you explain exactly why there is a problem here? Its fairly
normal under Windows to build applications that provide a generic
plugin interface (think Netscape plugins or COM) that allow the
plugins to be built with any compiler and runtime.

   Neil