[Python-Dev] Compiler used to build Python for Windows

[Greg Ewing]

Alexey Borzenkov wrote:

> I think the best lesson here is Tcl. Because it uses stubs mechanism,
> you don't need to depend on tclXX.dll, you don't deal with really
> direct implementation details, you don't care about runtimes,

How does that solve the problem of an extension using
one stdio library and the base interpreter another?

> Maybe it's possible (and not too late) for
> Python to somehow embrace such mechanism?

There would have to be an awful lot of stubs to cover
the whole Python/C API... but maybe that isn't seen as
a problem.

-- 
Greg