[Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X) (original) (raw)

Brian Curtin brian.curtin at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 22:05:38 CEST 2010

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 14:03, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Paul Rudin wrote: > "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> writes: > >> The major difference in the "do it yourself" attitude is that Mac user >> get a compiler for free, as part of the operating system release, >> whereas for Windows, they have to pay for it (leaving alone VS Express >> for the moment). > > JOOI why ignore the express versions of the MS compilers? All (I think) > MS compilers are available for free in command line versions - it's the > GUI tools you pay for.

Primarily out of a historical perspective: I think "we" started providing Windows binaries primarily because some people bought the appropriate license (of Visual Studio, and Wise Installer). IMO, that's a stronger reason than mere convenience. As for available tools: I'm not sure how you would build an AMD64 release just with those tools. Regards, Martin

Outside of hacking the registry and various config files, 64-bit builds can't be done with the express versions of Visual Studio, and I wouldn't be comfortable shipping a product built in that way. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20100414/54e8fd05/attachment.html>

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