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

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Fri, 09 May 2003 16:58:28 -0400

[MAL]

How about adding support for VC7 features in 2.4

[Tim]

AFAIK, current CVS Python compiles under VC7 now.

[MAL]

That's nice :-) I meant: adding features from VC7 to Python.

Umm, could you name one? VC7 is a compiler to me. I don't what it means to add a compiler feature to Python, so transformed the suggestion into one I understood.

and starting the transition in 2.5 ?

I expect that mostly depends on who's doing the work. PLabs Windows development is on auto-pilot (aka benign neglect). The first person to volunteer time to do anything here gets to set the policy for the next two decades <0.9 wink>.

How come ? I always thought that Zope's main deployment platform is Windows....

I don't know, but doubt it, and Windows users are conspicuous by absence on the public Zope dev mailing lists. Regardless, Zope strives to be a platform-neutral application, so I've never been surprised that Zope Corp's interest in Windows-specific Python work has been undetectable.