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

Brian Curtin brian.curtin at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 15:09:04 CEST 2011

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 07:48, <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

On 09:55 am, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

Am 05.04.2011 00:21, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:

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. But we can be blamed for closely following the MS release cycle (if we actually did that). For Python 3.2, we resisted. 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. OTOH, the very same people will have to buy licenses for all MSVC releases. If we manage to skip some of them, the zoo of products you need to install to support Python gets smaller. Recent Visual Studio Express editions are available as free downloads. Jean-Paul

On top of that, since you and others have asked on IRC: Visual Studio 2010 Express supports x64 compilation if you have the Windows SDK installed alongside VS2010. No more "support" via registry and config file hacking.

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