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FWIW, this patch works for me, and I'd definitely like to
see it in 2.4a2.  If the MSVC version isn't 1300 or 1310
(the theoretical 1400, for example), then it doesn't do
anything different to what 2.4a1 does, so it's hard to see
why that would be a problem (and with the patch applied,
there's a clear fix, just adding in the appropriate elif and
link - it's not like new versions come along all the time).