[Distutils] MSVC CRT woes

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Thomas Heller wrote:
> "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>That said, I think that including two wininst versions, one
>>compiled with VC6, the other with VC7, would solve this problem
>>nicely.  You'd still have to have VC6/7 for compiling C extensions,
>>but at least generating pure Python distutils wininst packages
>>would remain possible.
> 
> 
> I'm currently working on this.
> 
> distutils.msvccompiler.get_build_version() returns the MSVC version
> number as float, so I would suggest we name the wininst.exe according to
> this schema
>   "wininst-%s.exe" % msvccompiler.get_build_version()
> 
> wininst-6.0.exe and wininst-7.1.exe binaries would be provided with
> python (and distutils, if this is distributed separately again).

Sounds right to me.

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