Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Trent Nelson
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:54:31PM -0800, mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: Is this considered a new feature that has to be in by the first beta? I'm hoping to have it completed much sooner than that so we can get mileage on it, but is there a cutoff for changing the compiler? At some point, I'll

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 14:23, Trent Nelson tr...@snakebite.org wrote:    Brian, what are your plans?  Are you going to continue working in    hg.python.org/sandbox/vs2010port then merge everything over when    ready?  I have some time available to work on this for the next    three weeks or

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Catalin Iacob
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: ... P.S. Here is my personal list of requirements and non-requirements: ... - must generate binaries that run on Windows XP I recently read about Firefox switching to VS2010 and therefore needing to drop support for

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:37, Catalin Iacob iacobcata...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: ... P.S. Here is my personal list of requirements and non-requirements: ... - must generate binaries that run on Windows XP I recently read

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:41, Brian Curtin br...@python.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:37, Catalin Iacob iacobcata...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: ... P.S. Here is my personal list of requirements and non-requirements: ...

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Trent Nelson
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:23:14PM -0800, Trent Nelson wrote: * Updates to externals/(tcl|tk)-8.5.9.x so that they both build with VS2010. Before I go updating tcl/tk, any thoughts on bumping our support to the latest revision, 8.5.11? I guess the same question applies to all

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I... I think I might have already done this, inadvertently. I needed an x64 VS2010 debug build of Subversion/APR*/Python a few weeks ago -- forgetting the fact that we're still on VS2008. There is a lot of duplication of work going on here: at least four people have done the same.

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-26 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 15:11, Brian Curtin br...@python.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 15:01, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I previously completed the port at my old company (but could not release it), and I have a good bit of it completed for us at

[Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
It seems a number of people are interested that the Python trunk switches to Visual Studio 2010 *now*. I've been hesitant to agree to such a change, as I still hope that Python can skip over VS 2010 (a.k.a. VS 10), and go straight to VS 11. However, I just learned that VS 11 supposed ready VS 10

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-17 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 14:43, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: It seems a number of people are interested that the Python trunk switches to Visual Studio 2010 *now*. I've been hesitant to agree to such a change, as I still hope that Python can skip over VS 2010 (a.k.a.  VS 10), and

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I previously completed the port at my old company (but could not release it), and I have a good bit of it completed for us at http://hg.python.org/sandbox/vs2010port/. That repo is a little bit behind 'default' but updating it shouldn't pose any problems. So: do you agree that we switch? Do

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-17 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 15:01, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: I previously completed the port at my old company (but could not release it), and I have a good bit of it completed for us at http://hg.python.org/sandbox/vs2010port/. That repo is a little bit behind 'default' but