On Apr 24, 2006, at 12:48 AM, Neil Hodgson 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? > > I expect Microsoft means that Visual Studio Express will be > available free forever, not that you will always be able to download > Visual Studio 2005 Express. They normally only provide a particular > product version for a limited time after it has been superceded.
Yeah, that does sound like a normal commercial policy. If we want some compiler to be available "forever", we have to choose one that we can get permission to redistribute, and host it somewhere ourselves. 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
