On 09:55 am, mar...@v.loewis.de wrote:
Am 05.04.2011 00:21, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:40:33 +0200
"Martin v. L�wis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
- users have expressed concerns that they constantly need to upgrade
VS releases when developing for Python.
Isn't that kind of a misguided argument? It's not Python who decides
the
lifecycle of MSVC releases, it's Microsoft. We can't be blamed for the
churn.
But we *can* be blamed for closely following the MS release cycle (if
we actually did that). For Python 3.2, we resisted.
If getting old (Microsoft-unsupported) MSVC releases is difficult,
then
I think switching to the newest MSVC as soon as possible is the best
strategy, since it minimizes the annoyance for people wanting to build
extensions several years after a release is made.
OTOH, the very same people will have to buy licenses for all MSVC
releases. If we manage to skip some of them, the zoo of products you
need to install to support Python gets smaller.
Recent Visual Studio Express editions are available as free downloads.
Jean-Paul
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