[Twisted-Python] Re: ??: Twisted 8.0.1 for Python 2.5 for Windows is missing Zope

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Sergey A. Lipnevich
<sergey at optimaltec.com> wrote:
> zooko wrote:
>  >> Most likely, but zope.interface on Windows would require Visual Studio
>  >> 2003. I tried easy_install but couldn't complete it.
>  >
>  > The error message that says "Python was built with Visual Studio version
>  > 7.1, and extensions need to be built with the same version of the
>  > compiler" isn't true.
>
>  My console message was explicitly about Visual Studio 2003 (probably
>  because it's Python 2.5), and the machine had Visual Studio 2005 (and
>  2008) installed so the message was not without merit ;-).
>
>
>  > Install gcc (I recommend cygwin, but mingw will also work), and put the
>  > following stanza into your distutils config file:
>
>  Isn't it a bad idea to mix MSVC-built Python and Cygwin GCC-built
>  extensions in the same process?

In this particular case, it's OK:
this extension does not use system resources (memory, files...) from
the C runtime library.

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc