On 24 Sep 2014 15:15, "Tim Golden" <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > > On 23/09/2014 18:05, Steve Dower wrote: >> >> I'm also considering/experimenting with installing into "Program >> Files" by default, but I suspect that isn't going to work out yet. > > > I'd like to see that go forward: I think it's increasingly difficult to justify Python's position at c:\pythonxx. But it does run the risk of > breaking All The Things. When it was discussed, people spoke about > symlinks (or hardlinks / junctions / whatever) in the appropriate > places to support hardcoded paths, but I don't know how feasible > that will turn out to be.
It might be better to offer that as a supported option in 3.5, and then make it the default in 3.6. That will offer a couple of years to work out the issues, rather than a few months. >> I'd like to move the Windows versions onto the next release of VC >> (currently "VC 14" until the branding team figures out what to call >> it). There isn't a promised RTM date for VC 14 yet, so it looks like >> the best available compiler by Beta 1 will be a "Go Live" RC. (The >> "Go Live" marking basically means "we think this is ready for use, >> but expect a round of minor updates/fixes soon - the compiler is >> least likely to be updated, my guess is that it'll be Visual Studio >> UI mostly). > > > My only real misgiving here is that, for a few years, we'll need *three* versions installed to build the active branches: 2008 for 2.7; 2010 for 3.4; and 2014 for 3.5. Am I wrong? 3.4 will go into security fix only mode a few months after 3.5 is released, as happened with 3.3. It does suggest that we shouldn't switch the compiler until: 1. At least a beta of VC 2014 is generally available 2. We're a few weeks out from 3.5 beta 1 (with VC 2014 as an option until then) Cheers, Nick. > > TJG > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com
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