[Python-Dev] Moving Python 3.5 on Windows to a new compiler

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 18:01:08 CEST 2014


On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:
> What this means for Python is that C extensions for Python 3.5 and later can be built using any version of MSVC from 14.0 and later.

Oh, if only this had been available for 2.7!! Actually... this means
that 14.0 would be a good target for a compiler change for 2.7.x, if
such a change is ever acceptable.

To what extent is this compatibility going to be maintained? Is there
a guarantee that there'll be X versions (or X years) of
cross-compilation support?

ChrisA


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