New submission from Maciej Fijalkowski: I've tried following the dev guide (still not successful) to compile a debug version of cpython 2.7 and a couple issues that I run into:
* The VS2010 vs VS2008 confustion - the docs say "most versions before 3.3 use VS2008" - what does it mean by "most"? The current cpython trunk seems to work only on 2010 (with a variety of fun errors). * VS2010 is hard to download, as is 2008 - direct links would help * nowhere it's mentioned that you need to run stuff from VS console * the readme and the devguide disagree on a few points - readme seems to be better, but also not ideal * the docs don't say how to get svn.exe (that is install tortoiseHG, but then select extra tools from somewhere) * the build seems to require perl, despite claiming it's not Other things are misguiding too, but fixing all of the above would be a massive step forward ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 261009 nosy: docs@python, fijall priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Windows build instructions are very inaccurate versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26459> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
