[python-win32] [ANN] pywin32 build 216 released.

[James Mills]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>  Hot on the heels of being happy to announce build 215, I'm fairly
> nonchalant about announcing the release of pywin32 build 216 <wink>.
>
> This release is primarily to address some build related issues in build 215.
>  If you use pywin32 to host COM objects (as opposed to simply using COM
> objects), use it to host IIS ISAPI applications, or wish to use the adodbapi
> package on Python 3.x, you should upgrade to build 216.  The changes in this
> release are:
>
> * If you hosted COM objects or used ISAPI, your object/app would probably
> have failed to load, probably with a message related to msvcr90.dll - this
> has been fixed.  In the case of COM, it has been fixed by introducing a new
> DLL as a "loader" for COM objects (pythoncomloaderxx.dll) which delegates to
> pythoncomxx.dll, but has an appropriate "manifest".
>
> * ISAPI apps could also crash when using GetServerVariable for an unknown
> variable on Windows 7.
>
> * adodbapi for Python 3.x builds have had syntax errors fixed.
>
> * Pythonwin now prints (ie, to a printer) correctly on Python 3.x and allows
> the background color of the selection to be customized.
>
> * A number of test related changes.
>
> As always, thanks to everyone who contributed (both code and issues) to this
> release!
>
> Get it now via:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build216/

Congrats on the new release.

cheers
James

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