First release of Shed Skin, a Python-to-C++ compiler.

[beliavsky at aol.com]

A.B., Khalid wrote:
> Mark Dufour wrote:
> > After nine months of hard work, I am proud to introduce my baby to the
> > world: an experimental Python-to-C++ compiler.
>
> Good work.
>
> I have good news and bad news.
>
> First the good news: ShedSkin (SS) more or less works on Windows. After
> patching gc6.5 for MinGW, building it, and testing it on WinXP with
> some succuess, and after patching my local copy of SS, I can get the
> test.py to compile from Python to C++, and it seems that I can get
> almost all the unit tests in unit.py to pass.

I am reluctant to attempt an arduous installation on Windows, but if
Mr. Dufour or someone else could create a web site that would let you
paste in Python code and see a C++ translation, I think this would
expand the user base. Alternatively, a Windows executable would be
nice.