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If I interpret the bug tracker correctly, the 2.5 team is 
not about to change the "normal" build process for windows, 
because they refer to a special pcbuild8 directory for 
building with Visual Studio express. Of course if building 
python 2.5 with VC8 is possible, this is an improvement. 

But the problem is:
the "normal" build process of a python distribution is also 
integrated into the setup modules for building extensions (.
pyd-Files). And that means: anyone who wants to build a c-
language extension, has to 

-   either still have the withdrawn MS compiler
-   or build a custom version of python 2.5 (with pcbuild 8
).

And what about distributing the .pyd-Files if she/he uses 
alternative 2? One would have to distribute the custom 
python version too.

My conclusion:
it would be very helpful if the windows version of python 2.
5 were build with the vc8 compiler!