On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:48 AM, &quot;Martin v. Löwis&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:martin@v.loewis.de">martin@v.loewis.de</a>&gt; wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">&gt; I would really like to see this as release blocker, because the problem<br>
&gt; raised once in a while in the past and the windows people who are<br>
&gt; interested in getting console interface tools usually lack the knowledge<br>
&gt; of unix platform to do the task.<br>
<br>
</div>It certainly can&#39;t be a release blocker: there is no accepted PEP<br>
demanding it, it does not cause any crashes, and it is no regression<br>
over earlier releases.<br>
<br>
For this to have any chance, it *must* work with Visual Studio.<br>
Requiring gcc is unacceptable.<br>
</blockquote></div><br> As for PDCurses library itself there is a Makefile in PDCurses distribution for Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0+ named vcwin32.mak&nbsp; I can&#39;t afford buying Visual Studio to test if it works with newer versions, but logically Visual Studio should be able to convert Makefile to a newer format.<br>
<br>As for extension I&#39;ve provided .bat file that uses GCC for compilation and I think I have some ancient Visual C++ compiler to make the similar .bat file for cl.exe. But I doubt I&#39;ll be able to provide a patch for Python build system to compile the module into windows distribution, because I do not have much experience with Python build system and with C linking/makefiles in general. I know that PDCurses must be added to externals/, but that&#39;s all.<br>
<br>So even if can test and script Python part I am afraid I need help from someone with experience of Python+Make+Visual Studio. <br><br>-- <br>--anatoly t.