[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Tue, 06 May 2003 21:23:55 -0400

[Tim]

Speaking of which, presumably Tcl/Tk and SSL and etc on Windows should also be compiled under VC7 then.

[Martin v. L=F6wis]

That is certainly the case (not to forget bsddb, zlib, and bzip2). This will require quite some volunteer time.

Amplifying a little, the Python code base required some changes befor= e it would compile under VC 7 (I didn't make these changes, and don't reca= ll any details apart from changes in MS's LONG_INTEGER APIs). There's no re= ason to believe that other code bases are immune from needing changes too. A= t present, we don't maintain any patches to any external code base in o= rder to build the Windows release. If we needed to make changes to them for = VC 7, that would probably change, and should really be done by the packages= ' primary (non-Python) maintainers.