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

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Martin v. Loewis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

>
> My preferred long-term solution is to reduce the usage of the C library
> in CPython as much as reasonable, atleast on Windows. Memory management
> could directly use the heap functions (or even more directly
> VirtualAlloc); filenos could be OS handles, and so on. There are
> probably limitations to what you can achieve, but I think it's worth trying.

I saw you already mentioned work toward this a few months (years ?)
ago. Is there some kind of roadmap, or could you use some help ? I
would really like to solve this issue as much as we possibly can,

David