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Author	loewis
Recipients	christian.heimes, georg.brandl, loewis, ncoghlan
Date	2008-02-09.16:44:09
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Message-id	<1202575450.89.0.333063744999.issue1706@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The defaulting of WINVER is indeed a compiler things; the problems started when we moved to VS 2008 (so VC6 would certainly have a different default). Setting WINVER for extension modules wouldn't have helped with the Tcl problem: Tcl/Tk itself gets compiled independent of Python - Py_BUILD_CORE had no effect here. It does have effect on _tkinter, since _tkinter is part of Py_BUILD_CORE. Setting WINVER for all extension modules would be bad style. Some modules may fail to compile - it's up to the module author to decide what API level to build against.

The defaulting of WINVER is indeed a compiler things; the problems
started when we moved to VS 2008 (so VC6 would certainly have a
different default).

Setting WINVER for extension modules wouldn't have helped with the Tcl
problem: Tcl/Tk itself gets compiled independent of Python -
Py_BUILD_CORE had no effect here. It *does* have effect on _tkinter,
since _tkinter is part of Py_BUILD_CORE.

Setting WINVER for all extension modules would be bad style. Some
modules may fail to compile - it's up to the module author to decide
what API level to build against.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-02-09 16:44:11	loewis	set	spambayes_score: 0.00857372 -> 0.008573721 recipients: + loewis, georg.brandl, ncoghlan, christian.heimes
2008-02-09 16:44:10	loewis	set	spambayes_score: 0.00857372 -> 0.00857372 messageid: <1202575450.89.0.333063744999.issue1706@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-02-09 16:44:10	loewis	link	issue1706 messages
2008-02-09 16:44:09	loewis	create