[Xapian-discuss] Building 0.9.10 with MSVC++ 2005 Express Edition

[Charlie Hull]

Olly Betts wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:31:29PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
>> Python 2.5 on Windows will need the module to be called "_xapian.pyd"
>> instead of "_xapian.dll".  I believe older Python versions accepted
>> ".dll" or ".pyd", so we should probably always call it ".pyd".
> 
> I found references to ".pyd" for Python modules from 1999, which is
> before Python 2.0.  Currently we support Python 2.2 and up, so I suggest
> we should always use ".pyd" on Windows.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
> 
Fixed and tested for Python 2.5 and new build files uploaded.

Charlie