How to build extensions on Windows?

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Fuzzyman schrieb:
>> You may or may not know that it is futile arguing about compiler
>> switching for released versions of Python, i.e. 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5.
>> Whether or not it might be a good idea: it can't be done, for
>> compatibility with prior releases.
> 
> Of course, but Python development continues... Into the future..

It's clear that Python can't stay as VS 2003 forever. I don't
know what Microsoft's product plans are, but I hope that we
could skip VS 2005 entirely, and move to VS 2007 for Python 2.6.
That, of course, assumes that there is a VS 2007 release
sufficiently before Python 2.6.

Regards,
Martin