[Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

[Paul Moore]

On 26 October 2014 17:59, Tony Kelman <kelman at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Ensuring compatibility with CPython's
> chosen msvcrt has made that work even more difficult for them.

Ensuring compatibility with CPython's msvcrt is mandatory unless you
want to create a split in the community over which extensions work
with which builds. That's precisely the scenario Steve Dower and
myself (among others) fear, and want to avoid at all cost.

Paul