[Python-Dev] Supporting Visual Studio 2010 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Apr 5 00:21:55 CEST 2011

On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:40:33 +0200 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

- users have expressed concerns that they constantly need to upgrade VS releases when developing for Python.

Isn't that kind of a misguided argument? It's not Python who decides the lifecycle of MSVC releases, it's Microsoft. We can't be blamed for the churn.

If getting old (Microsoft-unsupported) MSVC releases is difficult, then I think switching to the newest MSVC as soon as possible is the best strategy, since it minimizes the annoyance for people wanting to build extensions several years after a release is made.

Regards

Antoine.

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