[3.6] bpo-31340: Change to building with MSVC v141 (included with Visual Studio 2017) (GH-3311) by zooba · Pull Request #3386 · python/cpython (original) (raw)

Im concerned about this change, as VS 2015 cannot build v141 binaries. I know v141 is binary compatible with v140, but shouldn't the VS version that builds Python stay consistent in a minor release? Or at least, shouldn't this be discussed more before this change is made? It requires the user to update VS which is a non-trivial change.

Ah, I see this seems to support both. Great!