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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Apr 5 11:58:13 CEST 2011

Won't that still be an issue despite the stable ABI? Extensions on Windows should be linked to the same version of MSVCRT used to compile Python

Not if they use the stable ABI. There still might be issues if you mix CRTs, but none related to the Python ABI - in particular, none of those crashing conditions can arise from the stable ABI.

This would seem to circumvent one of the core use-cases of the stable ABI which was not needing to recompile extensions for new versions of Python. Of course I could be completely wrong about all this.

Not completely, but slightly (I hope).

Regards, Martin

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