[Twisted-Python] Free Microsoft VC++ Compiler

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:49 AM 4/20/04 -0400, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 09:44, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
> > Well, from what I understand, mainline Python 2.4 is pretty much going
> > to require MSVC++ 7.x to link an extension properly, so it might be
> > sort of a lost cause.
>
>mingw is compatible with VC6 (otherwise we couldn't use it), possibly it
>can be made to be compatible with VC7?

Yes, it can.  See this thread:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-January/041650.html