[Python-Dev] IPv6 support in Win binary again

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Thu May 13 10:57:58 EDT 2004


[Ivan Judson]
> What is this implying about the 2.4 build assumptions?
>
> Vs.net 2008 :)? Platform sdk? Something else?

The Windows Python 2.4 distributed by the PSF will be built with VC 7.1 (aka
VC.NET 2003), assuming things go as planned.  When Martin said:

>> Using VC.NET is out of the question, since it would break the ABI
>> across minor releases, which is out of the question.

he should perhaps have said "micro" releases, under the usual

    major.minor.micro

release-numbering scheme.  In the Python world, a boost in the minor
(second) number is more what other projects consider to be a major release.
IOW, the Python numbering scheme is more like

    new_language.major.bugfix




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