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roger - 1st a big thank you for the wonderful service you provide.

I assume you are aware of this:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2015/11/02/announcin...

The python team actually pushed for this unbundling. Which other versions do you need? I can take than info back to the VC++ team.

There's also this for VM's:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2015/01/08/azu...

Thanks.

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Those are the "most recent version" I mentioned. The Visual Studio versions and Python adoption are out of sync. To build for the versions of Python I do, VS 2008, 2010, and whatever Python 3.5 needs. Note that the free versions excluded 64 bit compilation so the resource kit had to be used.

Here is my setup doc https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw/wiki/Setting-up-a-Windows...

Thanks rogerbinns - Understood, just wanted to make sure you were aware & it looks like you are :). I've pinged the VC++ team and will report back.

BTW we've setup the alias pythonbuildtools at microsoft.com where folks like you that are building pkgs can speak to the Python+VC++ team members. I recommended send your request there as well.

Cheers.

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