Support for CLY on Windows?

[catherine.devlin@…]

Is there any prospect for releasing a Windows binary distribution of cly?

I wasn't able to get it working on Windows from source. Among the problems, I believe, are

(1) without a Windows binary distribution, attempting setup.py install on any Windows machine without Visual Studio 2003 wouldn't work. I tried to resort to mingw32, but had no luck there.

(2) no 'readline' module for Windows (there is a 'pyreadline' in the Cheese Shop that may help with this, but that didn't seem to fix it.)

There may be more - I'm not very good with compiling.

I'm working on an extension of the standard library 'cmd' module. cly looks much better, but many of my target users are on Windows, so if they can't *easily* install cly, then I can't base a product on it.

Thanks!

[athomas]

Hi Catherine,

I haven't got a Windows Python installation, but I'll install it this week and take a look.

[athomas]

After a bit of investigation it seems the readline situation on Windows is pretty dire. PyReadline looks the most promising in that it's possible, by commenting out all references to cly.rlext, to make cly work with this module.

The downsides are that dynamic help via the ? key doesn't work, the module requires ctypes, and there's no "real" release of it yet.

It's clear I need to refactor readline support out of cly.interact anyway, so I'll try and get Windows support working while I'm at it.

[athomas]

Please try latest trunk. It should build fine from source on Windows and requires PyReadline (which in turn requires ctypes). If it works for you I'll release a new version and build Windows distributions of the package.

[athomas]

Windows build of CLY 1.0

[athomas]

A few more cleanups: I've attached an executable package, plus cly and all dependencies can now be successfully easy_installed from source. Please test and let me know how it goes.

[athomas]

Fixed in r492.