[2.7] bpo-30342: Fix sysconfig.is_python_build() on VS9.0 by vstinner · Pull Request #1544 · python/cpython (original) (raw)

"I have very little interest in doing much work to support the old build files (as they are explicitly unsupported)."

Wait wait wait... I fail to follow progress on the Windows build system, so I rely on the devguide which I expect to be up to date, and the guide says:

https://docs.python.org/devguide/setup.html#windows-compiling

"Python 2.7 uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, which is most easily obtained through an MSDN subscription."

I have a MSDN account, but after 30 min, I failed to get my MSDN number and I don't know my subscription is still valid or not (well, I guess that, it's expired). It took me 1 hour to find an old ISO of Visual Studio 2008, and not from microsoft.com :-(

I didn't want to install VS 2008, but I just followed the devguide.

... Do you mean that VS 2010 must now be used and the devguide is just outdated?