looking for 2.1.3 Windows binary with large file support

Mathew mathew at yeates.tv
Tue Nov 25 16:53:11 EST 2003


Tim Peters wrote:

> [Mathew]
> 
>>the version that is distributed with Zope/Plone does not handle large
>>files.
> 
> 
> Sorry, no version of Python 2.1 exists that supports large files on Windows.
> Adding support for that required substantial Windows-specific changes to the
> Python core, and 2.2.3 is the first Python version in which Windows
> largefile support was essentially complete (2.2 had most of it in place, but
> a few things were missing, like file.truncate(integer_bigger_than_2_gig)).
> 
> Note that Zope 2.7 and Zope3 are skipping the 2.2 line -- they'll both
> require 2.3.2+.
> 
> 

Holy crud. That means my Plone Data.fs file is dead since its over 2 
Gigs in size. Hmmmmmm. Not good.

Mathew






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