RE: [Mingw-users] Constructive Website Criticism

[Julien L. <lec...@fr...>]

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> From: min...@li...=20
> [mailto:min...@li...] On Behalf Of=20
> Daniel K. O.
> Sent: vendredi 26 ao=FBt 2005 06:56
> To: min...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Constructive Website Criticism
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> Leif W wrote:
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> > Well, it requires installing Python, which is a few MB?  Or does=20
> > Python allow compilation to a binary?
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> With py2exe it would require at most 1 MB (but I believe it=20
> would be less than that, with just a command-line interface).=20
> My friend estimated that what I proposed would need something=20
> from 100 to 500 lines of code.
> And you need Python anyways if you want a more complete=20
> development environment, almost as much as you need Perl; so=20
> it can be provided in 2 ways, binary and script.
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> But he then suggested to use Smart (http://smartpm.org/) so=20
> we only need to write a Channel that retrieves data from the=20
> prdownloads page. We already have some experience parsing=20
> invalid HTML pages with BeautifulSoup, so this will be the=20
> easier part. Smart currently doesn't compile directly on=20
> Windows, but I think I can hack it a bit and make it work.
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> Daniel K. O.
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When parsing http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw; how can you tell
which version is current, candidate, etc ? Won't that have to be
hard-scripted ?
Julien