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Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of FeatureWindows

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1	1	= Notes on possible Windows support =
2		* Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) should be used wherever possible; there is an excellent [http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html WMI Python Module] available.
	2	* Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) should be used wherever possible; there is an excellent [http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html WMI Python Module] available, which also comes with a [http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi_cookbook.html WMI Cookbook].
3	3	* Before Windows 2003 SP1, on 64-bit machines there are no API or WMI calls to get to many 32-bit windows functions (such as the 32-bit registry) from 64-bit programs, and vice versa. There also is no (official) x86_64 native python distributions for Windows pre-Python 2.5. So the choice would be:
4	4	1. Only support Windows in Python 2.5+ (which wouldn't be that bad because part of the build process would probably be to create stand-alone bcfg2 executables using [http://www.py2exe.org/ py2exe]). For 64-bit support there would have to be some kind of convoluted py2exe build process that built some things with 32-bit python and some things with 64-bit python.