RELEASED Python 2.4, alpha 1

[Paul Moore]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:

>> I don't think anybody has demonstrated yet that you can actually build
>> extensions with the Microsoft compiler that is free of charge.
>
> Which means that reports on experiments attempting to do so would be a
> service to the community ;-)

I haven't had success with the free MS compiler yet, but have built
extensions successfully with mingw. It needs a patch
(http://www.python.org/sf/870382) but otherwise works pretty well
modulo the usual need, documented in the distutils docs, to build
libpython24.a.

Paul
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