[ZODB-Dev] ZODB 3 crashes with MSVC 7.0 compiler

[Guido van Rossum]

>   I just built ZODB3 with the current shipping version of Microsoft's 
> compiler (7.0) for Windows and noticed that while running the demo,
> Python 2.2.1 (also built with MSVC 7.0) dies because tp_init for the
> ExtensionClass module is pointing to a bad address. I've double
> checked that I'm using the right C runtime and the compiler options
> all look ok.  Same problem with ZODB4. Works fine under
> Linux. Anybody got any ideas?

This is fixed in Python 2.2.2.  Try the beta, now on python.org.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)