[Spambayes] Windows 7

[Ocean]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: skip at pobox.com [mailto:skip at pobox.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 2:38 PM
> To: Ocean
> Cc: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Windows 7
> 
> 
> I don't use Windows, however...
> 
> If he's installing a released version of SpamBayes (1.0.4 or 1.1.a4) he
> should be getting a Python interpreter as part of the installer.  To the
> best of my knowledge neither Mark, Tim, Tony nor anybody else who ever
> released a SpamBayes-on-Windows installer ever bundled a 64-bit version of
> the interpreter with it.  If a 32-bit interpreter will work on a 64-bit
> machine you're home free.  If not, then it would have bombed if he was
> running 64-bit Windows 7.  I conclude that either he was running on a
32-bit
> version of Win7 or a 32-bit version of the Python interpreter will work on
a
> 64-bit version of Win7.  (Can someone with more knowledge of Windows than
me
> -- that is, with *any* knowledge of Windows -- confirm or deny this
> conclusion?)  As far as I know there is nothing specific to 32- or 64-bit
> architectures in the SpamBayes source code itself.  All 32- or 64-bit
> dependencies would be in the binary code of the Python executable.
> 
> Skip


	If I remember correctly, the interpreter is not included with the
Windows installer.  It has to be downloaded seperately.  In any case, if he
was using Windows 7 - 32 bit, you still can't deduce that SpamBayes would
work fine on the 64 bit O/S.

	That aside, while I don't know if the source code has to be
specifically coded for 64 bit, I do know that the PyWin32 is a 32 bit set of
extensions, and there is not a 64 bit version currently available.  Whether
it will still work or not is another piece of the puzzle.

	Regardless, Windows 7 compatibility is not something that can be
assumed until we know it can function properly (including the Outlook
plugin) in the 64 bit version of the O/S.