On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Luc Bourhis <luc_j_bour...@mac.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> it is my understanding that the patches floating around the net to support 
> Visual Studio 2010 to compile the Python core and for distutils will never be 
> accepted and therefore that the 2.7 line is stuck to VS 2008 for the 
> remaining of its life. Could you please confirm that?

This is correct. A compiler upgrade is a feature, so the change to
VS2010 could only be applied to the version actively receiving new
features, which at the time was 3.3.
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