Plain distutils won't detect it. It would be easy enough to fix 2.7.9, but "update Python" is a big/impossible ask for a lot of people, whereas "update setuptools" is easy and also covers Python 2.6 and <3.3.
The compiler installer can't set the keys that distutils looks for without losing the per-user installation, and it may also corrupt actual installs of Visual Studio. A monkey patch via setuptools was the best way to handle this - covers pip and Cython and can be ported to other libraries that care but avoid setuptools. Now that we have a patch, there's very limited value in fixing 2.7.9, IMO. But I'm willing to be convinced - we can always add a version check to the setuptools patch. Cheers, Steve Top-posted from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Antoine Pitrou<mailto:solip...@pitrou.net> Sent: 9/27/2014 5:13 To: python-dev@python.org<mailto:python-dev@python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:01:31 +0000 Steve Dower <steve.do...@microsoft.com> 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.) When you mention "setuptools", do you imply it doesn't work with plain distutils? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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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