[Python-Dev] Script(s) for building Python on Windows (original) (raw)

Brian Curtin brian at python.org
Mon Jan 16 21:19:33 CET 2012

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 14:00, Jason R. Coombs <jaraco at jaraco.com> wrote:

The second thing I notice is the scripts assume Visual Studio 2008. And while I recognize that Python is specifically built against Visual Studio 2008 for the official releases and that Visual Studio 2008 may be the only officially-supported build environment, later releases, such as Visual Studio 2010 are also adequate for testing purposes. I’ve been developing Python against Visual Studio 2010 for quite a while and it seems to be more than adequate. And while it’s not the responsibility of the scripts to accommodate such environments, if the scripts could allow for such environments, that would be nice.

2010 is adequate for limited use but the test suite doesn't pass, so I would be hesitant to add support and/or documentation for building with it until we actually support it the same as or in place of 2008.

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