Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP

Tue Jul 6 16:19:57 EDT 2010

On 6 Jul, 21:49, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:

> I agree, the situation isn't ideal. I see if I can get in contact with
> Microsoft's open source team. Perhaps they can keep the download link to
> VS 2008 EE working.

It seems the MSDN subscription required to get VS 2008 costs one
dollar less than $1200. So it does not fit within everyone's budget.