[issue20749] shutil.unpack_archive(): security concerns not documented

Change by swenson : -- keywords: +patch nosy: +swenson nosy_count: 3.0 -> 4.0 pull_requests: +27458 stage: needs patch -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29184 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/i

[issue5235] distutils seems to only work with VC++ 2008 (9.0)

Eric Swenson added the comment: Hi Tarek, I have been debugging this and found the following: If you set the DISTUTILS_USE_SDK environment variable to any value (I used DISTUTILS_USE_SDK=1) and the MSSdk environment variable to anything (I used MSSdk=1), and you manually run the "vcvarsal

[issue5235] distutils seems to only work with VC++ 2008 (9.0)

New submission from Eric Swenson : Building python extensions using distutils in python 2.6 with only VC++ 2005 installed no longer works. distutils appears to require VC++ 2008. The documentation on building extensions for Python 2.6 seems to suggest that VC++ 2008, while preferred, is