Re: [Python-Dev] Script(s) for building Python on Windows

2012-01-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Are you suggesting creating vs10to9, which would be congruent to vs9to8, or vs9to10? After reconsidering, I don't think I want anything like this in the tree at this point. The code will be outdated by the time Python 3.3 is released, as Python 3.3 will be built with a Visual Studio different

[Python-Dev] Script(s) for building Python on Windows

2012-01-16 Thread Jason R. Coombs
The current scripts for building Python lack some things to be desired. The first thing I notice when I try to build Python on Windows is the scripts expect to be run inside of a Visual Studio environment, the environment of which is only defined inside of a cmd.exe context. This means the

Re: [Python-Dev] Script(s) for building Python on Windows

2012-01-16 Thread Brian Curtin
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Script(s) for building Python on Windows

2012-01-16 Thread Jason R. Coombs
From: Brian Curtin [mailto:br...@python.org] Sent: Monday, 16 January, 2012 15:20 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.

Re: [Python-Dev] Script(s) for building Python on Windows

2012-01-16 Thread Martin v. Löwis
If there are no objections, I’ll work to extract the aforementioned functionality from the jaraco.develop modules and into a portable script and put together a proof-of-concept in the default branch. The build script should not interfere with any build bots or other existing build processes,

Re: [Python-Dev] Script(s) for building Python on Windows

2012-01-16 Thread Jason R. Coombs
From: Martin v. Löwis [mailto:mar...@v.loewis.de] Sent: Monday, 16 January, 2012 16:25 I'd be hesitant to put too many specialized tools into the tree that will become unmaintained. Please take a look at the vs9to8 tool in PCbuild; if you could adjust that to support VS 10, it would be

Re: [Python-Dev] Script(s) for building Python on Windows

2012-01-16 Thread Brian Curtin
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 18:01, Jason R. Coombs My goal in adding the upgrade code was to provide a one-step upgrade for developers with only VS 10 installed. That's what vs-upgrade in jaraco.develop does. Upgrading to 2010 requires some code changes in addition to the conversion, so the

Re: [Python-Dev] Script(s) for building Python on Windows

2012-01-16 Thread Jason R. Coombs
From: python-dev-bounces+jaraco=jaraco@python.org [mailto:python- dev-bounces+jaraco=jaraco@python.org] On Behalf Of Jason R. Coombs Sent: Monday, 16 January, 2012 19:01 I'm unsure if the conversion from 9 to 10 or 10 to 9 can be as simple as the vs9to8 suggests. When I run the