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Created on 2017-09-26 18:07 by xoviat, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| msg303057 - (view) | Author: xoviat (xoviat) | Date: 2017-09-26 18:07 | |
MSVC 2017 retains ABI compatibility with MSVC 2015, yet supports (as always with a newer compiler version) more features and compiles faster. Because it retains ABI compatibility with existing Python versions, I think it makes sense for distutils to prefer it (this could be fixed in setuptools, but distutils generally takes care of compiler detection). Thoughts? |
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| msg303060 - (view) | Author: Zachary Ware (zach.ware) *  |
Date: 2017-09-26 18:41 | |
3.5 is in security-fix-only mode, so it will not receive such an update. 3.6 is up to Ned and Steve. |
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| msg303068 - (view) | Author: Steve Dower (steve.dower) * |
Date: 2017-09-26 19:32 | |
Let me hop in my time machine and fix that for you: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/3425 (FWIW, I think it makes *much* more sense for setuptools to fix this by simply forking all of distutils and never looking back. But since we don't live in that world yet, it went into distutils.) |
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| msg303082 - (view) | Author: xoviat (xoviat) | Date: 2017-09-26 23:10 | |
@zooba Since you mention it, I agree with that proposal. But currently we have core developers contributing to distutils and @jaraco contributing to setuptools. @jaraco is quite competent, but I doubt that he would be able to maintain an independent fork of distutils by himself. In short, I think your proposal is a good one, but how can we allocate manpower? |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:58:52 | admin | set | github: 75776 |
| 2017-09-26 23:10:16 | xoviat | set | messages: + msg303082 |
| 2017-09-26 19:33:15 | steve.dower | set | status: open -> closed resolution: out of date stage: resolved |
| 2017-09-26 19:32:58 | steve.dower | set | messages: + msg303068 |
| 2017-09-26 18:41:52 | zach.ware | set | assignee: steve.dower components: + Windows title: Preferring MSVC 2017 in Python 3.5.x and 3.6.x new minor releases -> Preferring MSVC 2017 in Python 3.6.x new minor releases nosy: + ned.deily, paul.moore, tim.golden, zach.ware, steve.dower versions: + Python 3.6 messages: + msg303060 |
| 2017-09-26 18:07:03 | xoviat | create | |