Gordon, First of all, thanks very much for posting your paper about compiling Python extensions with Borland's free compiler. I haven't tried it out yet but am looking forward to experimenting with this next week. I also wanted to check to see if you are familiar with the work going on in the Distutils-SIG (which will become part of the standard Python library in Python 1.6): http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig Their support for building Python extensions under Windows is currently limited to Microsoft Visual C++. I'd like to work-up a new module for the distutils which would also the support use of Borland's C++ compiler, based on your instructions (and with all appropriate credits, of course). Had you planned to look at that, or do you know if anyone else is? I obviously don't want to duplicate anyone else's efforts... Lyle
On 05 May 2000, Lyle Johnson said:
Their support for building Python extensions under Windows is currently limited to Microsoft Visual C++. I'd like to work-up a new module for the distutils which would also the support use of Borland's C++ compiler, based on your instructions (and with all appropriate credits, of course). Had you planned to look at that, or do you know if anyone else is? I obviously don't want to duplicate anyone else's efforts...
Excellent! Please do it! I assume you are aware that the starting point is msvccompiler.py; let me just *strongly* encourage you to refactor common code out of the MSVCCompiler class and whatever-you-write (BorlandCCompiler?) rather than submitting a patch with lots of overlapping code. Thanks in advance! Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix bigot gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ I appoint you ambassador to Fantasy Island!!!
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