[Python-Dev] Build Notes for building trunk with Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition

[Tim Golden]

Paul Moore wrote:
> On 23/11/2007, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>> I really like to throw out the old junk to have a clean script. Maybe I
>> could leave the old msvccompiler alone and put the new code into
>> distutils.msvc9compiler?
> 
> That might work. I'm not sure if throwing the old stuff out is OK. As
> long as we have a VC6 directory (however unmaintained it may be) I'd
> say we need the equivalent distutils support.

Presumably the advantage of a new compiler flavour is that you
could set your pydistutils.cfg to that compiler (or use --compiler=
or whatever) and put whatever specifics you want in a new class
without having to disturb the unstable equilibrium which is
msvccompiler.

TJG