[issue35172] Add support for other MSVC compiler versions to distutils. distutils makes two incorrect assumption that MSVC compiler versions scale linearly and that the crt's are the same.

Steve Dower added the comment: Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered for distutils. If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and reopen it. If

[issue35172] Add support for other MSVC compiler versions to distutils. distutils makes two incorrect assumption that MSVC compiler versions scale linearly and that the crt's are the same.

New submission from Ali Rizvi-Santiago : Distutils makes a few incorrect assumptions that prevent it from supporting the newer Microsoft-y C compilers. This patch fixes it up till MSVC 14.0. There are 2 assumptions that are made by distutils and they are as follows. The first one is that