Re: [Distutils] Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7

2014-09-27 Thread Steve Dower 
It's free (VC Express 2008 is behind a pay wall these days)
It's small (85MB download, 300mb on installed)
It's a per-user install with no reboot required

If you have the permissions, time, and access for VC Express 2008, it gains you 
nothing. You're not the intended target audience (I thought I had that wording 
in the announcement, but I guess not).

Most people don't have or want Visual Studio installed on their machine, or 
need to install on a machine where they're not admin (think university student 
on a lab machine who needs Cython).

Cheers,
Steve

Top-posted from my Windows Phone

From: Piotr Dobrogost
Sent: ‎9/‎27/‎2014 3:34
To: Steve Dower
Cc: distutils sig
Subject: Re: [Distutils] Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7


On Sep 27, 2014 12:32 AM, "Steve Dower" 
mailto:steve.do...@microsoft.com>> wrote:
>
> I'll post this on the various other lists later, but I promised distutils-sig 
> first taste, especially since the discussion has been raging for a few days 
> (if you're following the setuptools repo, you may already know, but let me 
> take the podium for a few minutes anyway :) )
>
> Microsoft has released a compiler package for Python 2.7 to make it easier 
> for people to build and distribute their C extension modules on Windows. The 
> Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 (a.k.a. VC9) is available from: 
> http://aka.ms/vcpython27
>
> This package contains all the tools and headers required to build C extension 
> modules for Python 2.7 32-bit and 64-bit (note that some extension modules 
> require 3rd party dependencies such as OpenSSL or libxml2 that are not 
> included). Other versions of Python built with Visual C++ 2008 are also 
> supported, so "Python 2.7" is just advertising - it'll work fine with 2.6 and 
> 3.2

What that buys us in comparision to simply using VC 2008 Express?
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Re: [Distutils] Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7

2014-09-27 Thread Vinay Sajip 
> From: Steve Dower 
> Microsoft has released a compiler package for Python 2.7

Great. Thank you very much! Downloading it now :-)

Regards,

Vinay Sajip
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