Python in sci/tech applications

[robert]

Robert Kern wrote:
> This is what Martin said:
> 
> """
> It used to be possible to link with it. See
> 
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/abx4dbyh(VS.80).aspx
> 
> This is now a "known DLL", and meant for use by system-level components
> only.
> """
> 
> Note the words "used to" and "now". Mingw is a somewhat old project and 
> was initially developed at a time when MSVCRT.dll *was* intended to be 
> used by applications. It simply hasn't received enough attention 
> recently to move to a different runtime. If you would like to volunteer 
> your time to do the necessary work to allow it to link to modern 
> runtimes, please do so. You will receive the undying thanks of many, 
> many Pythoneers.

thanks, but I'm more in favor of the reverse direction :-) 
As I have a lot to do with frozen distributables, package sizes are still a predominant concern for me. App-startup speed, MEM consumption etc. also - still. 
Having non-standard C-RTLs and maybe non-standard versions of the MFC dll's, doubled Python-DLL sizes etc. one has an extra burden of >3MB since Python2.4.
This means for me: Python2.3 - or create very proprietary compilations.

robert