[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [MAL]
> 
>>>>How about adding support for VC7 features in 2.4
> 
> [Tim]
> 
>>>AFAIK, current CVS Python compiles under VC7 now.
> 
> [MAL]
> 
>>That's nice :-) I meant: adding features from VC7 to Python.
> 
> Umm, could you name one?  VC7 is a compiler to me.  I don't what it means to
> add a compiler feature to Python, so transformed the suggestion into one I
> understood.

There must be some or else why would someone want to buy VC7
(apart from trying to be hype-compliant) ?

>>>>and starting the transition in 2.5 ?
> 
>>>I expect that mostly depends on who's doing the work.  PLabs Windows
>>>development is on auto-pilot (aka benign neglect).  The first person to
>>>volunteer time to do anything here gets to set the policy for
>>>the next two decades <0.9 wink>.
> 
>>How come ? I always thought that Zope's main deployment platform
>>is Windows....
> 
> I don't know, but doubt it, and Windows users are conspicuous by absence on
> the public Zope dev mailing lists.  Regardless, Zope strives to be a
> platform-neutral application, so I've never been surprised that Zope Corp's
> interest in Windows-specific Python work has been undetectable.

Interesting. I find that most downloads for our Zope software
tend to be for the win32 platform.

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