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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Jun 15 17:26:36 EDT 2006


meyer at mesw.de wrote:

> I'm not sure how that backs the point you made. Infact, you're saying
> that people accepted that Python 2.4 was compiled with VS2003 because
> VC6 could not longer be bought. How is that different from the current
> situation where the VS2003 toolkit cannot longer be downloaded and it
> is at least becoming increasingly difficult to buy versions of VS2003?
> You also seem to imply that there is a large group of people that want
> you to stay with VS2003 for compiling Python 2.5.

what part of "Python 2.4 is built with VC2003 and everyone who's ever 
built Windows stuff for Python 2.4 already has it" do you have trouble 
understanding ?

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