11 Oct
2004
11 Oct
'04
1:51 a.m.
"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@pythonware.com> writes:
Thomas Heller wrote:
How many _xxxx.pyd windows specific modules do we need?
as many as it takes to make Python an excellent tool. it's not like one more entry in the makefile, and 20k in the binary distribution will cause problem for anyone.
if you want to stop contributions to Python's standard library unless they use your tools, you have a serious problem.
Sorry if you misunderstood me, I didn't want to stop this contribution. Here is what I wrote, again:
I would suggest to replace the _subprocess extension module by a Python implementation based on ctypes (and include ctypes in 2.4, at least for Windows).
Thomas