I'm talking about 3rd party extensions. Those may require source compatibility with older Python versions. All I'm asking for is to not require source-level use of C99 features. Of course requiring a specific compiler to work with specific CPython versions is fine.
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> wrote: > On 2016-06-04 11:59, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> As long as we don't require extension module authors to use them -- >> they may have their own compatibility requirements. > > On Windows extension modules must be compiled with a specific version of > MSVC any way. For Python 3.6 VS 2015 or newer is a hard requirement. > > We kept the old compiler directories around for embedders. > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
