Neil Schemenauer <nas@python.ca> writes: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > 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. > > Can distutils use (or be made to use) the free command line VC 7 tools? The only problem distutils has is to find the compiler and the environment it needs. Currently it relies on (undocumented) registry entries (for VC6), and there's a patch somewhere on SF for the registry entries for VC7. I like the idea of using VC7 (as much as I dislike the VC7 gui itself). 'Professional' windows developers have VC7 anyway, it's included in MSDN professional. Thomas
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