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authorSteve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>2020-03-03 00:04:11 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-03-03 00:04:11 (GMT)
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bpo-38597: Never statically link extension initialization code on Windows (GH-18724)
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+:mod:`distutils` will no longer statically link :file:`vcruntime140.dll`
+when a redistributable version is unavailable. All future releases of
+CPython will include a copy of this DLL to ensure distributed extensions can
+continue to load.