On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Paul Moore wrote:
On 4/24/06, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Martin v. Löwis:
Apparently, the status of this changed right now: it seems that
the 2003 compiler is not available anymore; the page now says
that it was replaced with the 2005 compiler.
Should we reconsider?
[...]
No. Martin means that http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
no longer points to a downloadable version of MSVC which includes the
optimizer, and generates VC 7.1 compatible binaries.
This means that unless you've already downloaded it, or it's
acceptable for someone else to host it, there's once again no way to
build Python with free tools :-(
[...]
Actually, it's apparently still there, just at a different URL. Somebody
posted the new URL on c.l.py a day or two back (Alex Martelli started the
thread, IIRC). I'm off to the dentist, no time to Google for it!
John
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