[Python-Dev] Visual studio 2005 express now free (original) (raw)
"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Apr 21 19:12:57 CEST 2006
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
Microsoft just announced that Visual Studio 2005 express will be free forever, including the IDE and the optimizing C++ compiler. (Not included in the "forever" clause are VS 2007 or later versions.)
Does this make a difference for Python development for Windows?
For future versions, perhaps. For 2.5, I think we now have settled on VS 2003, for several reasons:
- I personally consider VS 2005 still verdant (crude? immature? unfledged?). They can't really mean the whole breakage they have done to the C library. Also, I expect another release of VS after Vista, to cover all the new .NET API, and I hope that we can skip VS 2005 (although Vista gets delays, and so gets VS 2007)
- Fredrik Lundh points out that it would be nice if people producing extensions for multiple Python releases wouldn't need a separate compiler for each release.
- Paul Moore has contributed a Python build procedure for the free version of the 2003 compiler. This one is without IDE, but still, it should allow people without a VS 2003 license to work on Python itself; it should also be possible to develop extensions with that compiler (although I haven't verified that distutils would pick that up correctly).
Regards, Martin
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