[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer

[Neil Hodgson]

Tino Lange:

> Besides the optimizer - is it really possible to build a python.exe that
> *doesn't* depend on the .NET framework with the free download
> combination of ".NET 1.1" / "latest SDK".

   The C++ compiler in the free .NET SDK download can create executables
with no dependence on the .NET runtime. There is only a small set of headers
and libraries in the .NET SDK download but a full set is in the free
Platform SDK download. IIRC, the first public beta of .NET even included the
optimizer but that was swiftly removed.

   Neil