[Python-Dev] C99 (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Sat Jun 4 15:05:09 EDT 2016

On 2016-06-04 11:59, Guido van Rossum wrote:

As long as we don't require extension module authors to use them -- they may have their own compatibility requirements.

On Windows extension modules must be compiled with a specific version of MSVC any way. For Python 3.6 VS 2015 or newer is a hard requirement.

We kept the old compiler directories around for embedders.