Am 21.08.2012 17:01, schrieb mar...@v.loewis.de: > In the specific case, this isn't actually the limiting factor. > Instead, it's binary compatibility: binaries compiled with VS 2010 > are incompatible (in some cases) with those compiled with VS 2008. > So if the python.org binaries were released as compiler outputs > from VS 2010, exising extensions modules might crash Python. Therefore, > we cannot switch.
Compatibility issues may lead to other strange bugs, too. IIRC each msvcrt has its own thread local storage and therefore its own errno handling. An extension compiled with VS 2010 won't be able to use the PyErr_SetFromErrno*() function correctly. That's much harder to debug than a FILE pointer mismatch because it usually doesn't cause a segfault. Christian _______________________________________________ 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
