Fwd: Re: How to upgrade python from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 ?

[Kenneth Long]

Okay if one builds such from sources... but us poor
Windows flunkies
without a build environment have to wait for some
kindly soul to build
the installer compatible with the new Python
version.

especially since I havent got MS visual studio...
and mingw is not supported... :-(

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[casevh]

especially since I havent got MS visual studio...
and mingw is not supported... :-(

mingw32 is supported and can compile many extensions. See the following
post:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/8e2260fe4d4b7de9

If you meant something else with your comment, please explain.

casevh

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

especially since I havent got MS visual studio...
and mingw is not supported... :-(

Why do you say that? mingw might just work fine
(depending on particular details of the extension
module in question).

Regards,
Martin

 

[Anthony Baxter]

mingw32 is supported and can compile many extensions. See the following
post:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/8e2260fe4d4b7de9

If you meant something else with your comment, please explain.

That's for Python 2.4. I'm not sure it works the same way with Python
2.5. If someone has information to the contrary, it would be excellent
to get confirmation and the steps that are necessary...

 

[casevh]

That's for Python 2.4. I'm not sure it works the same way with Python
2.5. If someone has information to the contrary, it would be excellent
to get confirmation and the steps that are necessary...

I've used mingw32 to build gmpy for Python 2.5 without any problems. It
looks like mingw32 works just fine with Python 2.5 (assuming the
extension will compile with mingw32).

casevh

 

[casevh]

The link for pexports-0.42h.zip is broken so I cant
test it on an extension.

pexports is only needed for Python 2.3. It is not required for 2.4 or
2.5.

casevh

 

[Steve Holden]

Why do you say that? mingw might just work fine
(depending on particular details of the extension
module in question).

At the moment SourceForge is only listing one (UK) mirror for mingw, and
that seems to be down. I'm guessing something is broken, since I know it
used to be much more widely available.

regards
Steve

 

[Tony Meyer]

At the moment SourceForge is only listing one (UK) mirror for

mingw, and
that seems to be down. I'm guessing something is broken, since I
know it
used to be much more widely available.

Only one mirror (Kent) is available for any project. It's been like
this for nearly a day now, although the site status still hasn't
changed from "online". There are about 50 open tickets open about it
(one would think that people that are able to find the sf.net tickets
would be able to check for duplicates first...).

=Tony.Meyer

 

[Steve Holden]

Only one mirror (Kent) is available for any project. It's been like
this for nearly a day now, although the site status still hasn't
changed from "online". There are about 50 open tickets open about it
(one would think that people that are able to find the sf.net tickets
would be able to check for duplicates first...).

I see. Well, now you know why the PSF has continued to migrate away from
SourceForge. They are, at best, victims of their own success.

I found that a wget will, eventually, access the required files, albeit
after several retries - I'd be pretty annoyed about this state of
affairs if I were running the mirror at UKC.

regards
Steve