Matteo Bertini added the comment: I'm back on this issue with a minimal patch, and a longer motivation.
Distutils does not support Visual C++ for Python compiler, but it could, with a one-line patch. The proposed workaround is to use `setuptools`. But, we are not alone in this World, am I supposed to fork each third party package still using `distutils` and upgrade them to `setuptools`? No, someone will say, you can "simply" `import setuptools`, and it will monkey-patch `distutils` adding the support for VS for Python. 1) this is implicit, very very against the Python Zen 2) the modifications are not limited and back-compatible. Some packages, say `sip` from `PyQt`, are broken simply adding this `import setuptools`, and other are too. That said, I think this minimal patch to the `find_vcvarsall` code, can save a lot of time to every Python 2.7 users, time I see better spent upgrading to Python 3. Sorry for the rant-mode, but I very liked Python, and I still like Python more than other languages, but I don't think that providing half broken solutions and very limited support to all the developer still running Python 2.7 in some big old project is a good strategy to push people to Python 3. Python 3 is already a better language, but Python as a language can be a better language only if Python 2.7 will be a first class citizen till 2020. ---------- keywords: +patch nosy: +naufraghi type: -> enhancement Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file45916/vsforpython.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23246> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
