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[Python-Dev] Backporting the 3.5+ Windows build project files to 2.7

Zachary Ware zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 06:42:48 CEST 2015 
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd suggest explicitly reaching out to the Stackless folks to get
> their feedback. As I believe the switched to a newer compiler and VC
> runtime for Windows a while back, I suspect it will make their lives
> easier rather than harder, but it's still worth asking for their
> input.

>From a glance at the stackless repo, it looks like it still uses
VS2008's project files (which pretty much means using MSVC 9), but I
could have easily missed something.

Christian, what say you?  Would having the project files from 3.5
backported to 2.7 (but still using MSVC 9) be positive, negative, or
indifferent for Stackless?

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Zach
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