On 21 November 2013 21:27, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > That's already the unstated case. But besides stackless, it some of us are > advocating that there be python.org-provided binaries built with a newer > compiler (eventually, anyway).
I see no problem with python.org producing and distributing a VS2010-compiled version of Python 2.7 (subject to python-dev being willing to do so of course). But in order to do so, it would be necessary to address the issue of having multiple ABIs within one minor version on Windows. As you say, that's just a matter of doing things like enabling the ABI tag in wheel, making the necessary distutils changes (don't forget that distutils validates the MSVC version in use) and whatever other things I've forgotten about. It's by no means impossible, but nor is it trivial to do it "right". On the other hand, as Monty Python would say, "2.8 is right out" :-) Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
