It'll help with the numerical stack, but only a little. The devs involved have largely figured it out already and I can't provide a good Fortran compiler or BLAS library, which is what they need.
It'll be much more valuable for the small packages that have one vital C extension - currently those are basically unusable without a wheel or a compiler. Many DB and XML packages seem to fall into this category. It also works for Cython, so anything that uses Cython should work with just these compilers. Cheers, Steve Top-posted from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Christian Heimes<mailto:christ...@python.org> Sent: 9/27/2014 7:19 To: python-dev@python.org<mailto:python-dev@python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 On 26.09.2014 20:01, Steve Dower wrote: > Hi all, > > (This is advance notice since people on this list will be interested. > Official announcements are coming when setuptools makes their next release.) > > Microsoft has released a compiler package targeting Python 2.7 (i.e. VC9). > We've produced this package to help library developers build wheels for > Windows, but also to help users unblock themselves when they need to build C > extensions themselves. > > The Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 is available from: > http://aka.ms/vcpython27 Awesome! :) Thanks a lot, Steve! Is it possible to compile extensions from Python's numerical stack such as NumPy, SciPy and SciKit, too? _______________________________________________ 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/steve.dower%40microsoft.com
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