distutils on Windows with VC++ 8

[Rob Williscroft]

Rob Williscroft wrote in news:Xns9846DDC7A18E0rtwfreenetREMOVEcouk@
216.196.109.145 in comp.lang.python:

>> That's yet another option. Somebody reported that the compiler in the
>> .NET SDK won't support generating optimized code, though. That's a
>> problem for some people.
> 
> I belive that was true "Academic" releases of Visual Studio, AIUI it 
> was never true of the 7.1 compiler that came with .NET 1.1 SDK's.
> 

... a 106 MB download later ... 

Strike that. My belief was incorrect, the SDK comes with the "Standard"
compiler that doesn't understand the /O... options that the "Optimizing"
compiler that comes with Visual Studio does.

Rob.
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