Re: Regression in build 1964, AddGrowableCol fails

Chris Barker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.wxpython.devel
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Eric Fahlgren <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yeah, in an ideal world I'd use VC++ 9.0, but we can't get it any more
>

that's what that "new" link is for -- MS actually created and posted a
version specifically to support Python2.7 -- just for these reasons.


> and we've been building other stuff like vtk with 10.0 for about six years
> without issue.  I suspect it's mostly in the IO libraries that things go to
> dll hell, so when I try to do wxPrintf or whatever it is hit or miss.
>

yup -- that's the killer one -- but if it's working for you, it's working
for you.


> For our production code we use classic wxPython, with the release
> installers, so everything there is kosher, but I'm currently working on
> trying to make Phoenix work (as part of our migration to Py3), so I've just
> started to build my own wxPython bundle for testing and porting.
>

hopefully you can go straight to py3.5 and VS2015 in that case.


> As an aside, I can't see CPython 2.7 staying with the ancient Windows
> compiler until end-of-life in 2020, since hardware is going to fail and the
> licenses on those old boxes will be lost and pretty soon there won't be any
> build machines for it...
>

I wouldn't be so sure -- as I said there is a compiler MS has made
available -- and the core dev team REALLY doesn't want to create an
incompatible build, now a new version simiply for a new Windows Compiler...


> That's one of the, oh, billion or so reasons I'm pushing on Py3
> compatibility right now.
>

yeah -- it's time.

-Chris


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