Ravi wrote:
On Wednesday 08 October 2008 03:39:32 David Cournapeau wrote:
Note that 1.2.0 does not officially support python 2.6, specially on windows. Because python 2.6 uses a new toolchain (VS 2008 by default instead of 2003), it requires some non trivial changes.
How extensive are these non-trivial changes? I could help test any changes.
For one, the manifest madness introduced with VS 2005 may be painful to handle, since it severly lacks any serious documentation. I am still unsure whether we will need to care at all, though.
Another problem is that python headers are not "clean", they pollute the namespace quite heavily; a new version of python means new names added: those should be trivial, though.
Other things are the usual: brokenness of MS tools with respect to standards (basic C99 functions not available, etc...). Every version of MS tool is broken, but in a different way.
cheers,
David