Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of FeatureWindows


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02/26/07 11:00:02 (16 years ago)
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dclark
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  • FeatureWindows

    v4 v5  
    11= Notes on possible Windows support = 
    22 * 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  * 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: 
     3 * Before Windows 2003 SP1, on 64-bit machines there are [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa393067.aspx 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: 
    44   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. 
    55   1. Wrap external command-line programs such as winreg, which is part of [http://dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/outwit/ outwit], and screen scrape. Each external command-line program would need to be compiled into 32 and 64 bit versions. This approach might lead to licensing annoyances and having binary blobs in source control.