[Python-Dev] Moving Python 3.5 on Windows to a new compiler

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> Is it really any difference in maintenance if you just stop applying updates to
> 2.7 and switch to 2.8? If 2.8 is really just 2.7 with a new compiler then there
> should be no functional difference between doing that and doing a 2.7.whatever
> except all of the tooling that relies on the compiler not to change in micro
> releases won’t suddenly break and freak out.

If the only difference between 2.7 and 2.8 is the compiler used on
Windows, what happens on Linux and other platforms? A Python 2.8 would
have to be materially different from Python 2.7, not just binarily
incompatible on one platform.

ChrisA