It's free (VC Express 2008 is behind a pay wall these days) It's small (85MB download, 300mb on installed) It's a per-user install with no reboot required
If you have the permissions, time, and access for VC Express 2008, it gains you nothing. You're not the intended target audience (I thought I had that wording in the announcement, but I guess not). Most people don't have or want Visual Studio installed on their machine, or need to install on a machine where they're not admin (think university student on a lab machine who needs Cython). Cheers, Steve Top-posted from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Piotr Dobrogost<mailto:p...@2014.dobrogost.net> Sent: 9/27/2014 3:34 To: Steve Dower<mailto:steve.do...@microsoft.com> Cc: distutils sig<mailto:distutils-sig@python.org> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 On Sep 27, 2014 12:32 AM, "Steve Dower" <steve.do...@microsoft.com<mailto:steve.do...@microsoft.com>> wrote: > > I'll post this on the various other lists later, but I promised distutils-sig > first taste, especially since the discussion has been raging for a few days > (if you're following the setuptools repo, you may already know, but let me > take the podium for a few minutes anyway :) ) > > Microsoft has released a compiler package for Python 2.7 to make it easier > for people to build and distribute their C extension modules on Windows. The > Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 (a.k.a. VC9) is available from: > http://aka.ms/vcpython27 > > This package contains all the tools and headers required to build C extension > modules for Python 2.7 32-bit and 64-bit (note that some extension modules > require 3rd party dependencies such as OpenSSL or libxml2 that are not > included). Other versions of Python built with Visual C++ 2008 are also > supported, so "Python 2.7" is just advertising - it'll work fine with 2.6 and > 3.2 What that buys us in comparision to simply using VC 2008 Express?
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