On Tuesday 06 May 2003 7:26 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote: > A month ago at Python UK in Oxford (which was colocated with C and C++ > standardization meetings as well as a general C and C++ users > conference) I met with some folks from Microsoft's VC development > team, including the project lead, Nick Hodapp. I told Nick that > Python for Windows was still built using VC 6. He pointed out that > the actual compilers (not the GUI) from VC 7 are freely downloadable. > > More recently, Nick sent me an email offering to donate copies of VC 7 > to the "key developers". I count Tim, myself and Mark Hammond among > the key developers. Is there anyone else who would count themselves > among those? > > I presume he's offering the pro version, which has a real optimizer, > unlike the "standard" version that was kindly donated by Bjorn > Pettersen. > > I can see advantages and disadvantages of moving to VC 7; I'm sure the > VC 7 compiler is more standard-compliant and generates faster code, > but a disadvantage is that you can't apparently link binaries built > with VC 6 to a program built with VC 7, meaning that 3rd party > extensions will have to be recompiled with VC 7 as well. I have no > idea how many projects this will affect (don't worry about Zope Corp > > :-). Maybe we should try to include those 3rd party developers in the > > deal. (I think Robin Dunn would be affected, wxPython has a Windows > distribution.) > > If you think this is a bad idea or if you would like to qualify for a > compiler donation, please follow up! How do we get hold of the free VC 7 compilers? Phil
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