On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 15:40, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Am 03.07.2010 16:34, schrieb Christian Heimes: >> Am 03.07.2010 09:00, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis": >>>> I'm trying to test out a patch to add a timeout in subprocess.py on >>>> Windows, so I need to build Python with Visual Studio. The docs say >>>> the files in PCBuild/ work with VC 9 and newer. >>> >>> Which docs did you look at specifically that said "and newer"? That >>> would be a bug. >> >> The readme.txt in the PCbuild directory contains the sentence "Microsoft >> Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition is required at the very least". The >> wording could be interpreted as "2008 at very least" instead of "Express >> Edition at very least". > > That's what I expected to get as an answer - interestingly enough, Reid > was looking at some other place (the FAQ) that literally said "and > newer". I'd call that an error, even though, technically, converting the > projects to VS 2010 "ought to work" (i.e. it did after I committed some > fixes to make it work).
FAQ updated with "and newer" stripped out. -Brett > > Regards, > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/brett%40python.org > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
