2012/8/21 Brian Curtin <br...@python.org>: > 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.
But this does not prevent anyone from creating and maintaining such a patch, outside of the official python.org repository. -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
