[visionegg] Re: VisionEgg rollout

"the free microsoft optimizing compiler" - do you have a link for this?

On Mar 30, 2005 11:19 AM, Andrew Straw <astraw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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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