Which compiler will Python 2.5 / Windows (Intel) be built with?

[Steve Holden]

meyer at mesw.de wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> which compiler will Python 2.5 on Windows (Intel) be built with? 

The default build will be the VC 2003 compiler as for 2.4, but there 
will also be VC 2005 project support files in a PCBuild8 subdirectory, 
if current efforts by CCP succeed. I am certainly compiling the 2.5 
trunk with VC 2005 (VC++ 8.0, IIRC).

It would be great if Tim Peters got more support for his efforts in that 
area, so it's good to see people besides Tim, Mark Hammond and Martin 
von Loewis doing significant work on that platform.

Eventually someone may contribute (say) mingw support, but I'm not aware 
that anyone has yet stood up for the challenge of getting that into the 
distributions (and anyway I suspect that VC 200X will remain the default).

regards
  Steve
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