On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Sune Foldager <sune.folda...@me.com> wrote:
> Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>>> Now I'm curious if Python will use (or can be made to use) these
>>> compilers to build C extensions.  Perhaps we can drop mingw entirely.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed. The compiler in Windows 7 SDK seems to be the full
>> optimizing C++ compiler. I doubt there is any difference to the
>> one shipping with Visual C++ (modulo libraries like MFC and
>> ATL of course, which hopefully no one is using for these kind
>> of things).
>
> Why does this matter, though? I always use binary installers for python
> and that works fine. Why would we need to build it from scratch? We
> (Edlund) use 2.6 since it's built with 2008, so I guess we (TortoiseHg)
> would do the same, or rather the 7.0 SDK which should be the same.

I meant for building Mercurial's C extensions.

--
Steve Borho

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