Re: win32 dia with python

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 19.09.2006 11:03, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> Steffen Macke wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > I've used Python 2.2.3 from www.python.org to compile. It was installed
> > in the default location (c:\Python22)
The placement of Python does not matter, Python can deduce it's placement
from the registry - if only the right python2x.dll is found.

> Steffen
>
> Further to 2.2.3, is there a reason you have stayed with that version of 
> Python?
>
> I started with 2.3.x and have recently (and painlessly) 
AFAIK the last Python version officially build with msvc6
(linked to msvcrt.dll) was Python 2.3 ...

> been using 2.4.x 
> and looking forward to 2.5.x. I would be surprised if anything broke in 
> dia.pyd if you advanced to 2.4 or even 2.5.
... and I am not suprised but instead *know* there are problems with Python 
2.4 and 2.5 almost certainly caused by the C-runtime mix. Not at compile 
time but at runtime.

I've just tested with python25 and the problem is (as expected) still 
there. But even when building python25 with vc6 there are problems. Like 
the one mentioned in the Porting to Python 2.5 guide: mixing allocators for
PyObject_* and PyMem_*() does not work anymore, see 
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/section-other.html

[...]
> The reason I like Dia is that it promises (via the Python plugin) to let 
> me convert UML diagrams into Python source. I'm thinking that's some 
> sort of holy grail :)
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/dia/plug-ins/python/codegen.py ?

At 18.09.2006 03:45, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
> Has anybody got Dia with Python support working in Windows?
Yes, most of the newer stuff is even developed on win32.


        Hans