On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christian Heimes wrote:
> > Bob Kline wrote:
> >> Any possibility of revisiting this question (upgrading to a more recent
> >> compiler for Windows builds of Python)?
> >
> > The latest alphas of Python 2.6 and 3.0 are build with VS 2088. I've
> ^^^^
> Been out in the time machine, eh?
>
> > spent some time to get the new build system ready for Python 3.0a2.
> >
> > Is VS 2008 recent enought for you? :]
> >
> It would be really nice if we could maintain two parallel Windows
> versions, one with an open source tool chain like Mingw and one with the
> latest and greatest MS production line.
Is this mainly a request to use more open source tools? Because if
the concern is just cost, Python 2.6 and 3.0 compile with the free
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express editions.
Steve
--
I'm not *in*-sane. Indeed, I am so far *out* of sane that you appear a
tiny blip on the distant coast of sanity.
--- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy
_______________________________________________
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
