[Raymond Hettinger]
Too bad about 6.0. I had thought the plan was to support both 6.0 and 7.1. I'm not sure what we gained by dropping 6.0 right at the end :-(
There's no plan to support MSVC 6.0. Martin routinely checks things in that break it, and that's fine. The only reason it *has* worked until recently is that people sometimes volunteer to patch up the 6.0 part of the tree. I gave some days to that at the start, because I didn't have a machine at the time that *could* run 7.1. Now I do, so I pay a lot less attention to 6.0 (and Win98SE) now. IOW, 6.0 never had, and still doesn't have, a champion (== someone willing to keep it working) for 2.4. I would have volunteered, but your report of a stack overflow in test_pyclbr scared me away <wink>.