[Python-Dev] Python 2.7 patch levels turning two digit

[Donald Stufft]

On Jun 23, 2014, at 2:09 AM, Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

>> 
>> * Should we make use of the potential breakage with 2.7.10
>>   to introduce a new Windows compiler version for Python 2.7 ?
> 
> Assuming it is a good idea to continue producing Windows binaries
> for 2.7, I think it would be a bad idea to switch compilers. It will
> cause severe breakage of 2.7 installations, much more problematic
> than switching to two-digit version numbers.

I agree with this, we’ve just finally started getting things to the point where
it makes a lot of sense for binary distributions for Windows. Breaking all
of them on 2.7 would be very bad.

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Donald Stufft
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