[Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010 (original) (raw)

Brian Curtin brian at python.org
Tue Jan 17 21:51:04 CET 2012

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 14:43, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

It seems a number of people are interested that the Python trunk switches to Visual Studio 2010 now. I've been hesitant to agree to such a change, as I still hope that Python can skip over VS 2010 (a.k.a.  VS 10), and go straight to VS 11.

However, I just learned that VS 11 supposed ready VS 10 project files just fine, with no need of conversion. So I'd be willing to agree to converting the Python trunk now. It will surely cause all kinds of issues, as any switching of Visual Studio releases has caused in the past. Since a number of people have already started with such a project, I'd like to ask for a volunteer who will lead this project. You get the honor to commit the changes, and you will be in charge if something breaks, hopefully finding out solutions in a timely manner (not necessarily implementing the solutions yourself). Any volunteers?

I previously completed the port at my old company (but could not release it), and I have a good bit of it completed for us at http://hg.python.org/sandbox/vs2010port/. That repo is a little bit behind 'default' but updating it shouldn't pose any problems.

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