FW: [Python-Dev] IPv6 support in Win binary again

[Ivan R. Judson]

This is good news. I think.

--Ivan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.one at comcast.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:58 AM
> To: judson at mcs.anl.gov; 'Martin v. Löwis'; mat at elandem.org
> Cc: python-dev at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Python-Dev] IPv6 support in Win binary again
> 
> [Ivan Judson]
> > What is this implying about the 2.4 build assumptions?
> >
> > Vs.net 2008 :)? Platform sdk? Something else?
> 
> The Windows Python 2.4 distributed by the PSF will be built 
> with VC 7.1 (aka VC.NET 2003), assuming things go as planned. 
>  When Martin said:
> 
> >> Using VC.NET is out of the question, since it would break the ABI 
> >> across minor releases, which is out of the question.
> 
> he should perhaps have said "micro" releases, under the usual
> 
>     major.minor.micro
> 
> release-numbering scheme.  In the Python world, a boost in the minor
> (second) number is more what other projects consider to be a 
> major release.
> IOW, the Python numbering scheme is more like
> 
>     new_language.major.bugfix
> 
>