Re: win9x testers wanted. Re: [pygame] C file pointers and file loading

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know from personal experience it doesn't. Python 2.6 won't even 
install. The whole side-by-side assembly mechanism (manifests) that 
Visual Studio 2008 depends is only backported to Windows 2000.

Lenard


René Dudfield wrote:
> hi,
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> it appears the msvcr90.dll does not work on win9x.
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> Is anyone able to test the python alpha release on their win9x machine?
> http://python.org/download/releases/2.6/
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> The new python2.6 alpha links to msvcr90.dll rather than msvcr71.dll
> so we are trying to see if python2.6 alpha works on win9x.  To
> hopefully try and convince the python developers to switch back to
> msvcr71.dll - if this is the case.
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> So are you able to install the python2.6 alpha, and try and run it?
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