Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote: > First of all, I have put some work into pcbuild8 recently and it works > well. I am trying to drum up momentum for work on PCBuild8 > next europython. See http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython2007Sprints > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> I don't find the need to have separate object directories convincing: >> For building the Win32/Win64 binaries, I have separate checkouts >> *anyway*, since all the add-on libraries would have to support >> multi-arch builds, but I think they don't. > > No they don't, but that doesn't mean that you need different checkouts > for python, only the others. Anyway, this is indeed something I'd like > to see addressed. I don't think we should ditch cross-compilation. It > should simplify a lot of stuff, including buildbot setup and so on (if > we get the buildbot infrastructure to support it). It is also very > cumbersome, if you are working on a project, to have the binaries all > end up in the same place. Doing interactive work on python, I frequently > compile both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions for testing and it would > be downright silly to have to rebuild everything every time. > >> I would personally like to see Python "skip" VS 2005 altogether, >> as it will be soon superceded by Orcas. Unfortunately, it's unclear >> how long Microsoft will need to release Orcas (and also, when Python >> 2.6 will be released), so I would like to defer that question by >> a few months. > I think this is a bit unrealistic. Here we are in the middle of 2007, > VS2005 has just got SP1, and VS2003 is still the "official" compiler. > PCBuild8 is ready, it just needs a little bit of extra love and > buildbots to make us able to release PGO versions of x86 and x64. > > Given the delay for getting even this far, waiting for Orcas and then > someone to create PCBuild9, and then getting it up and running and so on > will mean waiting another two years. > Addressing only the issues of PCBuild8 and 64-bit architectures, I have tried to establish "free" buildbot support for the 64-bit architectures without any real success.
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