[visionegg] Re: VisionEgg rollout

Gabriel Nevarez wrote:

Hi, Andrew and all,

We are about to do a disk image rollout which includes VisionEgg (yup... VisionEgg's going bigtime!) in one of our bigger computer labs... about 100 machines or so.



Wow, that's exciting!

I noticed that there's a version out for Python 2.4. I haven't played around with it yet, but I would like to know if it's recommended to stay with the "stable" build for Python 2.3, or is the 2.4 version sufficiently robust for a rollout? Furthermore, as it's unlikely we'll be doing another rollout anytime soon, is Python 2.4 sufficiently upgraded to warrant a shift in attention to it (versus 2.3)?



I guess we're talking about win32 here. In my experience, the advantage of Python 2.4 is that the free microsoft optimizing compiler can now be used to build extensions that are binary-compatible with the python.exe distributed by the Python Software Foundation. (No copy of visual studio is needed as was the case with Python <= 2.3.x). The only potential disadvantage (which will doubtlessly be fixed sooner or later) is that the Enthought Edition of Python is not out yet for 2.4. Other packages (e.g. matplotlib, etc. etc.) do seem to have binaries for Python2.4/win32 available.

Otherwise, for the Vision Egg itself, I don't think it matters. There are perhaps a few tiny bug-fixes that happened between the time I rolled the cvs bleeding-edge release for 2.3 versus 2.4, and perhaps some greater code functionality enhancements in the ephysserver/ephysgui stuff, but I don't think you're using that. And you could of course grab the CVS version yourself.

Cheers!
Andrew

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