[Python-Dev] Visual studio 2005 express now free (original) (raw)

Alex Martelli aleaxit at gmail.com
Mon Apr 24 16:53:09 CEST 2006

On Apr 24, 2006, at 12:19 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

- 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). Apparently, the status of this changed right now: it seems that the 2003 compiler is not available anymore; the page now says that it was replaced with the 2005 compiler. Should we reconsider?

Personally, being a cheapskate, and with Windows only my tertiary
system, I'm in favor of anything that makes it simpler and/or cheaper
for people to work on Python and extensions. However, by the same
token I cannot really gauge how stable and solid VS 2005 is -- if as
current Windows experts you think it's still inferior to VS 2003,
then that's a very big point against it.

Alex

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