Well, I finally got a chance to test distutils 0.1.2 under Windows.

1. There is no standard zip-utility under windows, but zip.exe from info-zip works right out of the box.

I've fixed the source to use James C. Ahlstrom's zipfile.py when zip.exe is not available (Should this always be used?)

class Dist (Command): ... def make_zipfile (self, base_dir):

    # This assumes the Unix 'zip' utility -- it could be easily recast
    # to use pkzip (or whatever the command-line zip creation utility
    # on Redmond's archaic CP/M knockoff is nowadays), but I'll let
    # someone who can actually test it do that.

    try:
        self.spawn (["zip", "-r", base_dir + ".zip", base_dir])
    except OSError:
        import zipfile
        z = zipfile.ZipFile (base_dir + ".zip", "wb",

compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

        def visit (z, dirname, names):
         for name in names:
          path = os.path.join (dirname, name)
          if os.path.isfile (path):
           z.write (path, path)

        os.path.walk (base_dir, visit, z)
        z.close()

1. Libraries for VC++ are named python15.lib, not libpython15.lib. I had to fix this in msvccompiler.py:

class MSVCCompiler (CCompiler): ... def library_filename (self, libname): """Return the static library filename corresponding to the specified library name."""

# return "lib%s%s" %( libname, self._static_lib_ext )

    return "%s%s" %( libname, self._static_lib_ext )

def shared_library_filename (self, libname):
    """Return the shared library filename corresponding to the
       specified library name."""

# return "lib%s%s" %( libname, self._shared_lib_ext )

    return "%s%s" %( libname, self._shared_lib_ext )

1. os.link does not exist under windows, use shutil.copyfile for that:

class Dist (Command): def make_release_tree (self, base_dir, files): ... self.announce ("making hard links in %s..." % base_dir) for file in files: dest = os.path.join (base_dir, file) if not os.path.exists (dest): try: self.execute (os.link, (file, dest), "linking %s -> %s" % (file, dest)) except AttributeError: import shutil self.execute (shutil.copyfile, (file, dest), "copying %s -> %s" % (file, dest))

Regards

Thomas Heller ION-TOF GmbH