[Python-Dev] Build Notes for building trunk with Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition (original) (raw)

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Fri Nov 23 17:01:16 CET 2007

Paul Moore wrote:

On 23/11/2007, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

I really like to throw out the old junk to have a clean script. Maybe I could leave the old msvccompiler alone and put the new code into distutils.msvc9compiler? That might work. I'm not sure if throwing the old stuff out is OK. As long as we have a VC6 directory (however unmaintained it may be) I'd say we need the equivalent distutils support.

Presumably the advantage of a new compiler flavour is that you could set your pydistutils.cfg to that compiler (or use --compiler= or whatever) and put whatever specifics you want in a new class without having to disturb the unstable equilibrium which is msvccompiler.

TJG

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