[Python-Dev] Supporting Visual Studio 2010

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Won't that still be an issue despite the stable ABI? Extensions on
> Windows should be linked to the same version of MSVCRT used to compile
> Python

Not if they use the stable ABI. There still might be issues if you
mix CRTs, but none related to the Python ABI - in particular, none
of those crashing conditions can arise from the stable ABI.

> This would seem to circumvent one of the core use-cases of the stable
> ABI which was not needing to recompile extensions for new versions of
> Python. Of course I could be completely wrong about all this.

Not completely, but slightly (I hope).

Regards,
Martin