On 2017-05-16 02:19, Deborah Swanson wrote:
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I'll accept that, though I still don't quite understand the recent
dependence on Visual C++, after Python has been building its releases
with the tools you and others mention from the beginning until shortly
after the first 3 build was released, and the requirement has been so
much deeper since 3.4.3, that Python (apparently) can no longer use the
Visual C++ compiler built into XP. These are just things I wonder about
since these new requirements put a real crimp in what I'm currently able
to do, and I wonder how they will change Linux too. Again, lots of stuff
for me to pursue on my own here.
CPython is being developed primarily on Linux. Linux and other Unix-like
operating systems come with a C compiler as standard (the histories of
Unix and C are closely linked).
Windows, on the other hand, doesn't come with a C compiler. If you've
ever wanted to write something in C on Windows, you've had to install a
C compiler yourself.
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