[Distutils] Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7

[Piotr Dobrogost]

On Sep 27, 2014 12:32 AM, "Steve Dower" <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> I'll post this on the various other lists later, but I promised
distutils-sig first taste, especially since the discussion has been raging
for a few days (if you're following the setuptools repo, you may already
know, but let me take the podium for a few minutes anyway :) )
>
> Microsoft has released a compiler package for Python 2.7 to make it
easier for people to build and distribute their C extension modules on
Windows. The Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 (a.k.a. VC9) is
available from: http://aka.ms/vcpython27
>
> This package contains all the tools and headers required to build C
extension modules for Python 2.7 32-bit and 64-bit (note that some
extension modules require 3rd party dependencies such as OpenSSL or libxml2
that are not included). Other versions of Python built with Visual C++ 2008
are also supported, so "Python 2.7" is just advertising - it'll work fine
with 2.6 and 3.2

What that buys us in comparision to simply using VC 2008 Express?
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