[bind10-dev] python & Gentoo Linux

[Francis Dupont]

> Requesting that the default python interpreter is 3.1 is probably
> too much to ask for.

=> I don't think so and if today 2.7 seems more useful it won't be
no longer the case in some years.

> Anyway, it might be the time for me to write an ebuild

=> it is of course the right solution

> But just out of curiosity, how is building on gentoo going to help running
> it on windows?

=> the box I use for developments is an iMac (good and quiet hardware)
running Gentoo Linux (because I do an extensive usage of VMware Workstation)
with a rdesktop windows to virt1/win2008build (it could be a local VM too).

> Surely, even making it compile now on windows would be a heroic task

=> so I should be a hero: I took the lib/exceptions (it is compiled
first so I know it has no dependency), the google test and with some
Visual Studio hacking I got the run_unittests binary to run.

> so don't hesitate to ask for any help (it doesn't compile now...

=> in fact it compiles but it doesn't link: I chose to build a DLL
and this requires to export classes (in theory a .def does the work
but forget it with C++) so the code needs a small change.
I've just stopped for dinner, it should be fine if someone opens
a ticket and a branch (the ticket to discuss about what to dom
the branch to save what already works): I don't know what are the
current procedures.

Thanks

Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org>