
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
For years, Boost.Python has been doing some hacks to work around the fact that a Windows Python distro doesn't include the debug build of the library.
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Having to download the Python source and build the debug DLL was deemed unacceptable.
I'm curious: why was this "deemed unacceptable"? Python's license is about as liberal as it gets, and the code is almost startlingly easy to compile -- easier than any other similarly-sized codebase I've had to work with. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon <python@discworld.dyndns.org> GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------