We should definitely keep supporting MSVC. --Guido (mobile) On Jun 7, 2016 12:39 PM, "Sturla Molden" <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is it worth to support a compiler that in 2016 doesn't support the C > > standard released in 1999, 17 years ago? > > MSVC only supports C99 when its needed for C++11 or some MS extension to C. > > Is it worth supporting MSVC? If not, we have Intel C, Clang and Cygwin GCC > are the viable options we have on Windows (and perhaps Embarcadero, but I > haven't used C++ builder for a very long time). Even MinGW does not fully > support C99, because it depends on Microsoft's CRT. If we think MSVC and > MinGW are worth supporting, we cannot just use C99 indiscriminantly. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org >
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