[Numpy-discussion] numpy/Windows shared arrays between processes?

[David Cournapeau]

Matthieu Brucher wrote:
>
>     > The 2.6 seems to use VC 2005 Express, I don't know about py3000(?),
>     > with associated upgrade issues.
>     But what if the next MS compiler has again broken libc
>     implementation ?
>     (Incidently, VS2005 was not used for python2.5 for even more
>     broken libc
>     than in 2003):
>     http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064126.html
>
>
> I don't what he meant by a broken libc, if it is the fact that there 
> is a lot of deprecated standard functions, I don't call it broken 
> (besides, this deprecation follows a technical paper that describe the 
> new safe functions, although it does not deprecate these functions).
If unilaterally deprecating standard functions which exist for years is 
not broken, I really wonder what is :)

cheers,

David