Guido van Rossum wrote: > Microsoft just announced that Visual Studio 2005 express will be free > forever, including the IDE and the optimizing C++ compiler. (Not > included in the "forever" clause are VS 2007 or later versions.) > > Does this make a difference for Python development for Windows?
For future versions, perhaps. For 2.5, I think we now have settled on VS 2003, for several reasons: - I personally consider VS 2005 still verdant (crude? immature? unfledged?). They can't really mean the whole breakage they have done to the C library. Also, I expect another release of VS after Vista, to cover all the new .NET API, and I hope that we can skip VS 2005 (although Vista gets delays, and so gets VS 2007) - Fredrik Lundh points out that it would be nice if people producing extensions for multiple Python releases wouldn't need a separate compiler for each release. - Paul Moore has contributed a Python build procedure for the free version of the 2003 compiler. This one is without IDE, but still, it should allow people without a VS 2003 license to work on Python itself; it should also be possible to develop extensions with that compiler (although I haven't verified that distutils would pick that up correctly). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com