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<div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Plain distutils won't detect it. It would be easy enough to fix 2.7.9, but "update Python" is a big/impossible ask for a lot of people, whereas "update setuptools" is easy and also covers Python 2.6
and <3.3.<br>
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The compiler installer can't set the keys that distutils looks for without losing the per-user installation, and it may also corrupt actual installs of Visual Studio. A monkey patch via setuptools was the best way to handle this - covers pip and Cython and
can be ported to other libraries that care but avoid setuptools.<br>
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Now that we have a patch, there's very limited value in fixing 2.7.9, IMO. But I'm willing to be convinced - we can always add a version check to the setuptools patch.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Steve<br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; font-weight:bold">From:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:solipsis@pitrou.net">Antoine Pitrou</a></span><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">ý9/ý27/ý2014 5:13</span><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Re: [Python-Dev] Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7</span><br>
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<div class="PlainText">On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:01:31 +0000<br>
Steve Dower <Steve.Dower@microsoft.com> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
> <br>
> (This is advance notice since people on this list will be interested. Official announcements are coming when setuptools makes their next release.)<br>
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When you mention "setuptools", do you imply it doesn't work with plain<br>
distutils?<br>
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Regards<br>
<br>
Antoine.<br>
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