I'll ask my colleague what his compiler setup was. On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:24 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > 2016-06-04 19:47 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > > Funny. Just two weeks ago I was helping someone who discovered a > > compiler that doesn't support the new relaxed variable declaration > > rules. I think it was on Windows. Maybe this move is a little too > > aggressively deprecating older Windows compilers? > > I understood that Python only has a tiny list of officially supported > compilers. For example, MinGW is somehow explicitly not supported and > I see this as a deliberate choice. > > I'm quite sure that all supported compilers support C99. > > Is it worth to support a compiler that in 2016 doesn't support the C > standard released in 1999, 17 years ago? > > Victor > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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