[issue44602] Issue with get_build_version in msvc9compiler.py in distutils

Steve Dower added the comment: msvc9compiler.py has been deprecated ever since _msvccompiler.py was introduced, so no code should be using it (it was always internal anyway). And now all of distutils is also deprecated, so you probably need to report this to the setuptools project at https:/

[issue44602] Issue with get_build_version in msvc9compiler.py in distutils

Change by Ned Deily : -- components: +Distutils, Windows nosy: +dstufft, eric.araujo, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware ___ Python tracker ___

[issue44602] Issue with get_build_version in msvc9compiler.py in distutils

Rajesh added the comment: Recently Microsoft also removed support to install Visual Studio 2015 installation using installer, so users who need visual studio 2015 must download and then install. This will cause issues to Python packages that depend on distutils which again depends on visual

[issue44602] Issue with get_build_version in msvc9compiler.py in distutils

New submission from Rajesh : get_build_version method in msvc9compiler.py file in distutils folder is returning MSVC version as "14.2" for Python 3.9. 14.2 is the build version for Visual Studio 2015, but Visual studio 2015 wont work on Windows 10 as per the below link https://visualstudio.