> As much as Steve is unlikely to do the work to initiate and > maintain support of these other tools—whether due to his employer's > interests or his own—I too was unlikely to do work like this thread is > asking. In fact, the chances I would have done it were zero because I was > sitting on my couch upgrading our Visual Studio versions because it let me > do better stuff at my day job, though I was always open to review patches > that supported alternatives without major disruption. However, they never > came. I suspect the same could be said of Martin and anyone else working in > this area prior to that, because nothing has really changed.
It would be cool though if Microsoft started providing a cross-compiler running on Linux. This could even be the only compiler shipped with Visual Studio, now that Windows can run Linux userland. Cross-compilers from Microsoft would not be totally unheard of. IIRC, the last DOS versions (Visual C++ 1.5x) were Win32 binaries building for DOS 16 bit. Technically speaking, using a 32 bit compiler for building for 64 bit Windows or the other way around would probably count as cross-compilation anyway. _______________________________________________ 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
