Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > Are there any features which make VS 2010 easier to use for us?
Not for us, but for our users. Users request to build Python with VS 2010, because that's all they have. It's already a major pain for Python Windows developers to discover that they can't build Python 2.7 extensions with their VS installation. So we absolutely have to use the latest VS release for each Python release - we will be using that for at least two years, at which point VS 2008 may not be available anymore from MS. VS 2008 will end its mainstream support on April 9, 2013; the Extended Support will be available until April 10, 2018. I'm not entirely sure about the policy, but I think commercial availability ends with the mainstream support (i.e. in a year from now). I'm also not sure whether this means that they will take VS Express 2008 off the net (which also expires its mainstream support in 2013). FWIW, VS 2010 Pro has mainstream support until July 14, 2015, and extended support until September 8, 2020 (at this point; they may extend it depending on when the successor version becomes available). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14813> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
