There should be a Python build using Visual Studio 2005

[vmanis]

BPO	1504947
Nosy	@loewis, @tiran

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title = 'There should be a Python build using Visual Studio 2005'
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[vmanis]

This report is a follow-on from Bug# 1498051, which
complained that Distutils doesn't recognize Visual
Studio 2005. That bug was closed with a statement
that extensions should be built with the same version
of the MS compiler that built the Python system.

Given that Visual Studio 2003 is no longer available
as a commercial product from Microsoft, many people
(myself included) must use Visual Studio 2005.
Therefore, I am requesting that a separate `batteries
included' Windows installer be provided where
everything has been built with VS2005.

[loewis]

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Recategorizing as a feature request.

I'm personally not willing to produce several different x86
windows packages. However, sources are available, so if
somebody things this should be provided, they are certainly
free to provide it themselves.

[dobesv]

You don't have to provide several different builds - only the 2005 build is needed.

[loewis]

It is not true that only the 2005 build is needed. Many people specifically requested that Python 2.5 is built with VS 2003, so they need the (current) 2003 build.

[tiran]

We are using VS 2008 now.