[Bob Kline]
>  Earlier this month, Tim P. wrote:
> 
> > Semi-unfortunately, the author of that [bzip2] has
> >
> >     no idea if it actually works on 95/98/ME/NT/XP
> >
> > and in the docs for "3.8 Making a Windows DLL"
> >
> >     I haven't tried any of this stuff myself, but it all looks
> >     plausible.
> >
> > That means it will require some real work to build and test this
> > stuff on 6 flavors of Windows.  Not a showstopper, but does raise
> > the bar for getting into the PLabs Windows distro.


>  Sorry if I'm way off base here, but does the underlying bzip2 package
>  have to be in a DLL, or can't that be built as a static library, which
>  gets linked into the .pyd, which *is* a DLL?  In either case, it doesn't
>  seem like it would be very difficult to create whatever flavor library
>  is needed.  The code for bzip2 seems to be very portably written.
> 
>  The python-bz2 code, on the other hand, needed a little bit of tweaking
>  to make it compile with Microsoft's compiler.
> 
>  I'll be happy to help in whatever way would be useful in dealing with
>  the "raised bar," as the prospect of having Python support on all
>  platforms for bz2 compression (and tarfiles) is very appealing.

This work has already been completed; current CVS Python has full bz2
support for Windows.


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