[Python-Dev] Re: Py2.4 pre-alpha snapshot (original) (raw)

Kurt B. Kaiser kbk at shore.net
Sun Dec 7 17:53:28 EST 2003

Paul Moore <pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

How will the free VC7 work (I assume Kurt means the one in the .NET SDK)? AFAIK, it doesn't support Visual Studio project files. It also doesn't include an optimizer, what effect will that have on build compatibility, etc?

Here are the pertinent messages from last spring:

-- KBK

===================================================================== From: Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer To: phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk cc: python-dev at python.org Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 14:55:15 -0400

How do we get hold of the free VC 7 compilers?

Here's the info Nick sent me:

| We offer as part of the .NET Framework SDK each of the compilers that | comprise our Visual Studio tool - including C++. The caveat here is | that we don't yet ship the full CRT or STL with this distribution - | this will be changing. Also, the 64bit C++ compilers ship for free as | part of the Windows Platform SDK. All of this is available on | msdn.microsoft.com. [...] | Here are the links to the SDKs. But so you aren't surprised, these are | NOT low-overhead downloads or installs... || .NET Framework 1.1 || http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/howtoget.aspx || Platform SDK || http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sdkintro/sdkintro/obtainingthecompletesdk.asp

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From: Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> Subject: RE: [Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer To: phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk Cc: python-dev at python.org Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 14:56:52 -0400

[Phil Thompson]

How do we get hold of the free VC 7 compilers?

Part of the 100+ MB .NET Framework 1.1 SDK:

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/howtoget.aspx

Note that this requires Win2K minimum.

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From: Chad Netzer <cnetzer at mail.arc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer To: python-dev at python.org Date: 06 May 2003 15:37:30 -0700 Organization:

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 15:06, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Part of the offer was:

| Potentially we can even figure out how to enable anyone to | build Python using the freely downloadable compilers I mentioned | above...

Which would seem to exclude building on Win98 machines (or WinME snort, or even Win NT 4). Those platforms still have a huge installed base, and I would assume a not insignificant developer base.

Is offering a MSVC6 version along with a more recent compiler version an option?

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Chad Netzer (any opinion expressed is my own and not NASA's or my employer's)

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