I vaguely recall that there were problems with distributing the debug version of the MS runtime. Anyway, why can't you do this yourself for all Boost users? It's all volunteer time, you know... --Guido On 11/4/05, Charles Cazabon <python@discworld.dyndns.org> wrote:
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.
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