MSVC 6.0 Unsupported?

[Gerhard Häring]

Syver Enstad wrote:
> Gerhard Häring <gh at ghaering.de> writes:
>>Syver Enstad wrote:
>>>"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at lemburg.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The best thing to do is to replace this code in Python's object.h
>>>>file (Python23\Include\object.h; note the comment !):
>>>
>>>That's exactly what I did and it worked fine.
>>
>>Requiring users of my software to patch their Python instalation is
>>not an option for me.
> 
> But Gerhard, what can I do? Every python extension that I will try to
> compile will fail if it depends on a working staticforward. The most
> rational thing to me is to patch object.h instead of patching every
> .cpp/.c file that needs this define.

Yeah sure. That's the best option for *you* if you want existing 
(noncompatible) Python extensions :)

I was playing the side of an author of Open Source Software that should 
be buildable with Python 2.3 and MSVC6. That's where my different view 
on this issue comes from :-)

-- Gerhard