[Python-Dev] Moving Python 3.5 on Windows to a new compiler (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 21:33:45 CEST 2014

On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

Is it really any difference in maintenance if you just stop applying updates to 2.7 and switch to 2.8? If 2.8 is really just 2.7 with a new compiler then there should be no functional difference between doing that and doing a 2.7.whatever except all of the tooling that relies on the compiler not to change in micro releases won’t suddenly break and freak out.

If the only difference between 2.7 and 2.8 is the compiler used on Windows, what happens on Linux and other platforms? A Python 2.8 would have to be materially different from Python 2.7, not just binarily incompatible on one platform.

ChrisA

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