[Python-ideas] Update the required C compiler for Windows to a supported version.

[yoav glazner]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

> Vernon D. Cole writes:
>
>  > Before anyone starts flaming me about "off topic"
>
> It's not off topic, and in fact there's a recent thread on python-dev
> which touches on this:
>
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-November/130421.html
>
> (Sorry, a lot of the subthreads are irrelevant.  Look for the subthreads
> with Steve Dower and Martin van Loewis posting to start.)
>
>  > I cannot compile a Python extension module with any Microsoft compiler
>  > I can obtain.
>
> Your pain is understood, but it's not simple to address it.  There have
> been many threads on this over the years.  The basic problem is that the
> ABI changes.  Therefore it's going to require a complete new set of
> *all* C extensions for Windows, and the duplication of download links
> for all those extensions from quite a few different vendors is likely to
> confuse a lot of users

I compiled a few extensions on VS2010 to work with Python27(2008), with no
issues*.
Ok there were issues with some manifest stuff but there is a quick
workaround for that

I guess that for common extensions the ABI problems are not visiable
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