Hi Martin, On 6/29/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We should remove/change this comment. It is utterly misleading.
To a warning/error stating that you miss a compiler? > I meant to leave this as a per-shell choice. If you set MSSdk, you > indicate that the environment you created is "right", and distutils > should not second-guess you. This is problematic if the user did > "register environment variables" when installing the SDK, so I plan > to change this to look for a different environment variable (in > addition) OK, that makes sense. > > 2) As far as I have been able to determine .Net 2.0 uses > > sdkInstallRootv2.0. Also it installs by default under C:\Program > > Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\ > > Forget about Visual Studio 8 and .NET 2.0. It won't help here. I only have .NET 1.1 and 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 (8) installed. Why should I forget about it? Is Python compiled with much older compilers and thus unable to work together in a nice way or? > > So basically a bunch of logic needs to be rewritten for newer version > > support and I will investigate this. > > No. The checks are all fine. For what I can see not if you have newer versions of .NET such as 2.0, which is basically the defacto standard at the moment. So please elaborate a bit more so that I gain some insight about this, because I am needing this in order to build a working pyDB2 on my Windows system to do some testing. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com