On Apr 24, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> - 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). > > 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?
Personally, being a cheapskate, and with Windows only my tertiary system, I'm in favor of anything that makes it simpler and/or cheaper for people to work on Python and extensions. However, by the same token I cannot really gauge how stable and solid VS 2005 is -- if as current Windows experts you think it's still inferior to VS 2003, then that's a very big point against it. Alex _______________________________________________ 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
