Re: [Py2exe-users] template to avoid manifest hell

[Paul S. <si...@pe...>]

Mark Hammond wrote:
>> Mark Hammond wrote:
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>>> I think this will be fixed in Python 2.6.2; you should either revert
>>> to 2.5, wait for 2.6.2, or build 2.6 yourself from sources.
>>>       
>> Ouch that is bad news.
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> Why is moving back to 2.5 such a burden?
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because I have some custom modules. Compiling those for 2.5 requires a
version of Visual Studio that is no longer available.
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>> What is different between the 2.6 that I could build from sources
>> (using
>> the current visual studio) and the released one?
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> Fixes to the way imports are done were checked in after 2.6.1
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aha so not just build from source but build from cvs/svn that makes sense.
Do you have a concrete pointer which files to look at for this? (as I
would need to port those changes to stackless python too, so building a
complete checkout would be more of an issue I guess).

Paul

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