On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Trent Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  > I don't like the part where the solution kills the Python process during
>  > a rebuild. It's too surprising for the user.
>
>  Hmmm.  When you say rebuild, I assume you mean the change I made to the 
> pythoncore project's pre-link step to call kill_python.exe, and not to the 
> post-build step of kill_python that runs itself?  Personally, when I'm doing 
> development, if I've got the pcbuild\python_d.exe console open, it's usually 
> to test one liners, I'm not using it to do anything important.  If I forget 
> to close it before I kick off a build, it's annoying running into errors at 
> the link stage, I'd certainly prefer the build system to kill off anything 
> that'll inhibit a successful link before actually linking.
>
>  What do others that do Windows development think?  I don't have a problem 
> changing the build behaviour if the approach I've taken is generally disliked.

I agree with Christian: in interactive sessions, the F7 key should not
kill my running testsuite... I prefer the linker errors.
Please do this only for buildbot builds!
Or maybe have it controlled by an enviroment variable.

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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