[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Sat, 10 May 2003 09:35:44 +0200
Tim Peters wrote:
> [MAL]
>
>>>>How about adding support for VC7 features in 2.4
>
> [Tim]
>
>>>AFAIK, current CVS Python compiles under VC7 now.
>
> [MAL]
>
>>That's nice :-) I meant: adding features from VC7 to Python.
>
> Umm, could you name one? VC7 is a compiler to me. I don't what it means to
> add a compiler feature to Python, so transformed the suggestion into one I
> understood.
There must be some or else why would someone want to buy VC7
(apart from trying to be hype-compliant) ?
>>>>and starting the transition in 2.5 ?
>
>>>I expect that mostly depends on who's doing the work. PLabs Windows
>>>development is on auto-pilot (aka benign neglect). The first person to
>>>volunteer time to do anything here gets to set the policy for
>>>the next two decades <0.9 wink>.
>
>>How come ? I always thought that Zope's main deployment platform
>>is Windows....
>
> I don't know, but doubt it, and Windows users are conspicuous by absence on
> the public Zope dev mailing lists. Regardless, Zope strives to be a
> platform-neutral application, so I've never been surprised that Zope Corp's
> interest in Windows-specific Python work has been undetectable.
Interesting. I find that most downloads for our Zope software
tend to be for the win32 platform.
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