Python extension compatibility

Philippe C. Martin philippecmartin at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 4 10:44:05 EST 2004


Hi,

*** QUICK BACKGROUND ***
-)I have been  working with pycsc.c in which I made a few modifications.
-)When I had it working un linux - I attempted to port it to Windows
-) I read a lot, downloaded mingwin and had pexports crash when I attempted to 
get the .def out of winscard.dll
-) I then attempted to create the .def by hand with no luck
-) I read some more and decided I would have ess problems with Visual 
Studio .NET (sigh) - so I broked down and invested
-) the setup.py failed on python 2.3 because V6 was required
-) I read there was a patch but also that the laster 2.4B was compiled with VS 
7.1 (which I assumed meant .NET)
-) Downloaded it, everyting compiled and linked fine - had to copy the files 
by hand to the right locations and everyting worked great.
***************************************
Now for the question:

Since pycsc does not use any brand new Python functionality, are the binaries 
be compatible with earlier versions of Python ? down to which ?


Regards,

Philippe



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