[New-bugs-announce] [issue31595] Preferring MSVC 2017 in Python 3.5.x and 3.6.x new minor releases

Tue Sep 26 14:07:03 EDT 2017

New submission from xoviat:

MSVC 2017 retains ABI compatibility with MSVC 2015, yet supports (as always with a newer compiler version) more features and compiles faster. Because it retains ABI compatibility with existing Python versions, I think it makes sense for distutils to prefer it (this could be fixed in setuptools, but distutils generally takes care of compiler detection).

Thoughts?

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components: Distutils
messages: 303057
nosy: dstufft, merwok, xoviat
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Preferring MSVC 2017 in Python 3.5.x and 3.6.x new minor releases
type: enhancement

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