[Python-Dev] Issue2889: Add Curses for Windows as native module for 2.6

[techtonik]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > As for PDCurses library itself there is a Makefile in PDCurses
> distribution
> > for Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0+ named vcwin32.mak  I can't afford buying
> > Visual Studio to test if it works with newer versions, but logically
> Visual
> > Studio should be able to convert Makefile to a newer format.
>
> Visual C++ 9.0 Express Edition builds Python quite happily these days.
> So you can certainly do the integration without buying anything. If
> you get stuck on technical details, there are people here who would
> happily give you advice. Windows developers are always welcome!


Finally, I've downloaded Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2008, but it
requires Windows XP to install and I have only Windows2000 at hand. I will
try to get MS Visual Studio Express 2005 and see if it works.


> If you don't have the knowledge needed, and can't spare the time to
> learn (which is entirely acceptable) then you are indeed relying on
> another Windows developer to pick this up. You may be out of luck
> there - nobody has been interested enough to do this before now (it's
> not as if PDCurses is new) so there's not much reason to expect things
> to have changed.
>
> I'll try to spare the time to learn how to include curses support in
windows, but I will appreciate if anybody could review the patches and
convert project to MSVC 2008 in the end.

-- 
--anatoly t.
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