MSVC2013

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/03/2015 15:55, polyvertex at gmail.com wrote:
> Out of curiosity, is there any plan to use a more recent version of Visual Studio (i.e.: 2013) to compile the official Python3 distribution for Windows?
> Is it in discussion? Maybe waiting for the 2015 version?
>
> I'm working on a C++ software that embeds Python3, currently compiled with MSVC2010 and would like to upgrade to MSVC2013, but it appears that, while being feasible, Python3 won't compile out of the box with that configuration. I would like to avoid that hassle if possible...
>
> Cheers,
>

I'm building Python 3.5 every day with 2013 no problems at all, thanks 
mainly to the work on the build system by Zach Ware and Steve Dower.  If 
2015 is stable that will be used for 3.5 else we'll stick with 2013.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence