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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-07-28 07:56:38 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2001-07-28 07:56:38 (GMT)
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Move Windows to Expat 1.95.2. CAUTION: Your Windows build won't work
until you download the new expat and install it; see PCbuild\readme.txt.
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step in an enviroment that already has the correct envars set up).
pyexpat
- Python wrapper for accelerated XML parsing. Requires
- ftp://ftp.jclark.com/pub/xml/expat.zip
- Unpack into dist\expat.
+ Python wrapper for accelerated XML parsing. Requires the Windows
+ expat_win32bin installer from
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/
+ Currently using version 1.95.2.
+ Install into dist\expat.
+ You should also copy expat\Libs\expat.dll into your PCbuild directory,
+ else at least two tests will fail (test_pyexpat and test_sax), and
+ others will erroneously get skipped (at least test_minidom).
NOTE ON CONFIGURATIONS