[Python-ideas] Clang in distutils TAKE 2

[Eli Bendersky]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

> Eli Bendersky writes:
>
>  > Do the best of my knowledge, Clang doen't produce MSVC ABI binaries
>  > on Windows at this time. Isn't this a requirement for the official
>  > Python build?
>
> Sure, but AFAICS he's not suggesting that Clang be used for the
> official build, only that it be available to users who build their
> own.
>

I read it differently. He said "Clang as a compiler for building Python
extensions on Windows", by which I understood extensions that get loaded by
the official Python build. To this I raised a concern of ABI
incompatibility. If his intention was to build Python itself with Clang on
Windows, as well as the extensions for it, then it's a different issue
altogether.

Eli
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