On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 14:00, Jason R. Coombs <jar...@jaraco.com> wrote: > The second thing I notice is the scripts assume Visual Studio 2008. And > while I recognize that Python is specifically built against Visual Studio > 2008 for the official releases and that Visual Studio 2008 may be the only > officially-supported build environment, later releases, such as Visual > Studio 2010 are also adequate for testing purposes. I’ve been developing > Python against Visual Studio 2010 for quite a while and it seems to be more > than adequate. And while it’s not the responsibility of the scripts to > accommodate such environments, if the scripts could allow for such > environments, that would be nice.
2010 is adequate for limited use but the test suite doesn't pass, so I would be hesitant to add support and/or documentation for building with it until we actually support it the same as or in place of 2008. _______________________________________________ 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
