Re: win32 dia with python

[Mike Dewhirst <miked dewhirst com au>]

Hans Breuer wrote:
> 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

That is very good to hear.

Is there a road map for releasing dia/dia-python.dll and bin/dia.pyd 
with Python support?

I'm happy to try it out and submit bug reports with all versions of 
Python you want to support.

I don't have the C skills to be useful as a Dia developer.

Regards

Mike

>         Hans
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