[Python-Dev] PEP 0404 and VS 2010 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Nov 21 22:02:29 CET 2013

martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

Package authors would have to create multiple binary releases of the same modules for Windows, and upload them to PyPI. pip would have to learn to download the right one, depending on what build of Python 2.7 is running.

Is that much different from package authors having to release binaries for different versions of Python, if they want to support older versions?

Having multiple binaries for the same x.y version is different from what's been done before, but it seems to me an unavoidable consequence of supporting one x.y version for longer than usual.

If we don't provide a version for the current MS compiler, we will end up with 2.7 becoming effectively unsupported due to the actions of MS. Do we want to allow that to happen, or do we want 2.7 to remain viable for a while longer?

-- Greg

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