Re: [Cheetahtemplate-discuss] Call For Help! I need Windows/Python developers!

[James A. <ab...@gm...>]

I've just compiled NameMapper under Windows.  There is only a minor
change needed to _namemapper.c.  See attached patch.  I compiled this
on Windows XP using Visual C++ 2008 Express (that's the free version).
 The Python version is 2.6.2 installed from the python.org installer.

I've also tried to get the tests running under Windows.  There are a
few problems here:
1) Use of commands.getstatusoutput().  This isn't supported on
Windows.  I've replaced this will subprocess.Popen which seems to be
the preferred new method.
2) Some tests assume that the shell will expand globs ("*.tmpl") and
the Windows shell doesn't do this.  I'm skipping these tests on
Windows.
3) One place assumed that temp files went in /tmp.  I fixed that to be
more general.
4) After running `setup.py install` there's no command-line "cheetah"
command installed.  The tests that try to shell out and run this
command don't work.  I've made a batch file and put it on my PATH to
work around this for now but I don't know what the proper long-term
solution is.  Use setuptools to create a wrapper .exe?
A patch addressing 1 through 3 is attached.

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James Abbatiello