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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 07:48, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:exarkun@twistedmatrix.com">exarkun@twistedmatrix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 09:55 am, <a href="mailto:martin@v.loewis.de" target="_blank">martin@v.loewis.de</a> wrote:<br>
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Am 05.04.2011 00:21, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:<br>
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On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:40:33 +0200<br>
"Martin v. Löwis" <<a href="mailto:martin@v.loewis.de" target="_blank">martin@v.loewis.de</a>> wrote:<br>
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- users have expressed concerns that they constantly need to upgrade<br>
VS releases when developing for Python.<br>
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Isn't that kind of a misguided argument? It's not Python who decides the<br>
lifecycle of MSVC releases, it's Microsoft. We can't be blamed for the<br>
churn.<br>
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But we *can* be blamed for closely following the MS release cycle (if<br>
we actually did that). For Python 3.2, we resisted.<br>
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If getting old (Microsoft-unsupported) MSVC releases is difficult, then<br>
I think switching to the newest MSVC as soon as possible is the best<br>
strategy, since it minimizes the annoyance for people wanting to build<br>
extensions several years after a release is made.<br>
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OTOH, the very same people will have to buy licenses for all MSVC<br>
releases. If we manage to skip some of them, the zoo of products you<br>
need to install to support Python gets smaller.<br>
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Recent Visual Studio Express editions are available as free downloads.<br>
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Jean-Paul</blockquote><div><br></div><div>On top of that, since you and others have asked on IRC: Visual Studio 2010 Express supports x64 compilation if you have the Windows SDK installed alongside VS2010. No more "support" via registry and config file hacking.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9yb4317s.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9yb4317s.aspx</a></div></div>
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