[Python-Dev] VC++ versions to match python versions?

[David Cournapeau]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:01 PM, David Bolen<db3l.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris Withers <chris at simplistix.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Is the Express Edition of Visual C++ 2008 suitable for compiling
>> packages for Python 2.6 on Windows?
>> (And Python 2.6 itself for that matter...)
>
> Yes - it's currently being used on my buildbot, for example, to build
> Python itself.  Works for 2.6 and later.
>
>> Ditto for 2.5, 3.1 and the trunk (which I guess becomes 3.2?)
>
> 2.5 needs VS 2003.

The 64 bits version of 2.5 is built with VS 2005, though.

cheers,

David