[Distutils] Distribute 0.6.2 - testing the release - help needed!

[Alex Grönholm]

Tarek Ziadé kirjoitti:
> 2009/9/24 Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>:
>   
>> Tarek Ziadé kirjoitti:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> The next Distribute version will be released soon, with python 3
>>> support (thanks to Martin, Lennart, and Alex !)
>>> and more bug fixed. (you can follow that in the issue tracker)
>>>
>>> If you want to give a hand on testing the next Distribute version,
>>> I've uploaded a dev version of the trunk of Distribute at
>>> nightly.ziade.org, meaning that you can try the upcoming release
>>> (at your own risks ;) )
>>>
>>> - the tarball : http://nightly.ziade.org/distribute-0.6.2dev.tar.gz
>>> - a modified distribute_setup.py script that will install the dev
>>> version : http://nightly.ziade.org/distribute_setup_dev.py
>>> - a modified bootstrap.py file that will let you bootstrap a
>>> zc.buildout environment with this version
>>>
>>> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated,
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Tarek
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Do you know anyone who could fix the 64-bit Windows issue before the 0.6.2
>> release? While I know C, I've never done Windows programming.
>>     
>
> IIRC this is a long-dated setuptools bug, and related to the .exe
> files in teh package,
> that are 32bts only
>
> I'll need to dig on this
>
> Tarek
>
>   
There is a mingw-w64 package on sourceforge. Maybe this could help?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/