[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer (original) (raw)

Greg Spencer greg_spencer@acm.org
Wed, 7 May 2003 12:25:11 -0600

Actually, on re-reading your mail, I realize that you might just be talking about getting VC7 to work well with SCons (since it currently only knows about how to find VC6). I've got that part done, and it'll be in with the project file stuff.

            -Greg.

-----Original Message----- From: Paolo Invernizzi [mailto:paoloinvernizzi@dmsware.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 1:13 AM To: python-dev@python.org Cc: Mark Hammond; greg_spencer@acm.org Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer

Mark Hammond wrote:

Another thing to consider is the "make" environment. If we don't use DevStudio, then presumably our existing project files will become useless. Not a huge problem, but a real one. MSVC exported makefiles are not designed to be maintained. I'm having good success with autoconf and Python on other projects, but that would raise the barrier to including cygwin in your build environment. I think the scons (www.scons.org) will have in its next release full support for building targets using VC6 project file, and full support for VC7. Actually it has support also for cygwin and mingw...

So I think is possible to have an automated way for building VC7 python based only on some scons script and VC6 project files... The possible goal is to keep working with VC6 IDE as now, and have a simple build script able to automatically build the VC7 version tracking changes..

I've inserted Greg Spencer, who I know is working on this... surely he can bring us more details.

Paolo Invernizzi.