7 Jun
2016
7 Jun
'16
6:24 a.m.
Hi, 2016-06-04 19:47 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:
Funny. Just two weeks ago I was helping someone who discovered a compiler that doesn't support the new relaxed variable declaration rules. I think it was on Windows. Maybe this move is a little too aggressively deprecating older Windows compilers?
I understood that Python only has a tiny list of officially supported compilers. For example, MinGW is somehow explicitly not supported and I see this as a deliberate choice. I'm quite sure that all supported compilers support C99. Is it worth to support a compiler that in 2016 doesn't support the C standard released in 1999, 17 years ago? Victor