Python 2.4 killing commercial Windows Python development ?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Apr 11 17:56:59 EDT 2005


Michael Kearns wrote:
> There are a few problems with this as I see it. In theory, the 'cost' of
> MSVC 7.1 shouldn't be a problem for a big organisation. However, I
> wouldn't expect to have to go and buy it purely because I'm developing
> (perhaps) a shareware application using python - this isn't my case, but
> I wasn't looking at it from just a big organisation perspective.

For developers that need msvcr71.dll on the target system which don't
have a license to distribute it, the solution is simple: they just need
to advise their users to install python-2.4.1.msi. This comes with
msvcr71.dll included.

Regards,
Martin



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