[Python-Dev] IPv6 support in Win binary again (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Thu May 13 10:57:58 EDT 2004


[Ivan Judson]

What is this implying about the 2.4 build assumptions?

Vs.net 2008 :)? Platform sdk? Something else?

The Windows Python 2.4 distributed by the PSF will be built with VC 7.1 (aka VC.NET 2003), assuming things go as planned. When Martin said:

Using VC.NET is out of the question, since it would break the ABI across minor releases, which is out of the question.

he should perhaps have said "micro" releases, under the usual

major.minor.micro

release-numbering scheme. In the Python world, a boost in the minor (second) number is more what other projects consider to be a major release. IOW, the Python numbering scheme is more like

new_language.major.bugfix


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