Patches item #1509163, was opened at 2006-06-20 09:17 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by peterschwalm You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1509163&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Documentation Group: Python 2.5 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Paul Moore (pmoore) Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Summary: MS Toolkit Compiler no longer available Initial Comment: Microsoft have withdrawn the free Toolkit Compiler 2003. This patch to PCBuild\readme.txt updates the Python build documentation to reflect this fact. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Peter Schwalm (peterschwalm) Date: 2006-06-22 11:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1543425 If I interpret the bug tracker correctly, the 2.5 team is not about to change the "normal" build process for windows, because they refer to a special pcbuild8 directory for building with Visual Studio express. Of course if building python 2.5 with VC8 is possible, this is an improvement. But the problem is: the "normal" build process of a python distribution is also integrated into the setup modules for building extensions (. pyd-Files). And that means: anyone who wants to build a c- language extension, has to - either still have the withdrawn MS compiler - or build a custom version of python 2.5 (with pcbuild 8 ). And what about distributing the .pyd-Files if she/he uses alternative 2? One would have to distribute the custom python version too. My conclusion: it would be very helpful if the windows version of python 2. 5 were build with the vc8 compiler! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1509163&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Patches mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/patches
