again re 1.6b1 on Windows

[Alex Martelli]

"Tom" <nospam at nospam.com> wrote in message
news:3Fkj5.266156$7o1.7156363 at news2.rdc1.on.home.com...
> I built the 1.6b1 sources for windows to, with the same results.  No point
> in everyone who wants to try b1 on windows going through the same thing
> (particularly as VC isn't free), so I put the results on the web with a
> brief explanation.
>
> http://www.malcolmson.com/python/
>
> I should note, though, that I was too lazy to build the (optional)
_tkinter,
> bsddb, pyexpat, zlib modules - the ones that require other packages.

pyexpat and zlib work fine.  bsddb, I dunno -- the docs send one to
Sam Rushing's web page, I got the zip from there, but it's just a .pyd
hardcoded to Python 1.4, apparently; I don't know where to get the rest
from -- I guess with shelve, gadfly, etc, I can do without it:-).

I understand _tkinter is optional, but I'm surprised IDLE can work
without it...?  Still haven't gotten around to building it, yet.  I
do have Tcl/Tk (from the Python 1.5.2 release).

On your page you suggest wxPython as a cross-platform GUI, but I
think the current release is hardcoded to using Python's 1.5 dll...?
It doesn't seem to be working for me, anyway.  So I've downloaded
the 9+ megs of wxWindows and have built those (still need to test a
bit) and thought I'd rebuild wxPython next.  Does wxPython 2.2.0
work for you with Python 1.6b1...?


> As for setup, I did the following with the files I built:
> - the .exe files I stuck in ...Python16.
> - the .dll goes in your system folder (eg. WinNT/System32).
> - the .pyd files (c modules) I stuck in ...Python16\DLLs.
>
> And the registry stuff is optional I believe.
>
> Does this help?

Sure does, thanks.  If the registry stuff is optional, all
the rest is easy. That doesn't really seem so from Hammond's
page (to which you kindly provide a pointer from yours), but
that page does give more than enough info to proceed anyway.


The build-from-source rather than just-install may be needed
for all sorts of optional-but-who-can-live-without-them things
such as kwP and NumPy, anyway -- unless each and every author
of such wonderful things releases a version built for 1.6p1,
I guess.  Maybe once a proper installer is released I will
put up downloadable .pyd's, if I can figure out the various
licenses:-), just so non-VC++-owners can still have the great
benefits from these indispensible add-ons.


Alex