Download Microsoft C/C++ compiler for use with Python 2.6/2.7 ASAP

[Stephen Hansen]

On 7/6/10 11:21 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> sturlamolden <sturlamolden at yahoo.no> wrote:
>>
>> Just a little reminder:
>>
>> Microsoft has withdrawn VS2008 in favor of VS2010.
> 
> Nonsense.  They have released VS2010, but they certainly have not
> "withdrawn" VS2008, and I have heard of no plans to do so.

Its not nonsense; Microsoft has historically made unavailable fairly
quickly previous versions of the suite after a new release is out. There
hasn't been any serious notification of this before it happens.

The concern here is not at all without precedent. There has been some
very real pain for Python extension authors/maintainers directly related
to what compilers and SDK's Microsoft makes available: generally, Python
is 'behind' the times of what's the latest version of VS and their SDK
that is available.

>> The express version is also unavailable for download. >:((
> 
> Also nonsense.  Get it from right here:
>     http://www.microsoft.com/express/downloads/
> 
> Note the three tabs: VS2010, SQL Server R2, and VS2008.

Again, not nonsense.

That's available now. However, very real experience has made certain
people *very* reasonably cautious about when "now" becomes "the past" in
this situation: what is available now may change as soon as tomorrow or
later with very little real notice.

Yeah, you can get a MSDN subscription and get access to a lot. Lots of
people can't afford that just to compile an extension they support.

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   Stephen Hansen
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