Am 04.04.2011 22:38, schrieb Brian Curtin: > Would it be reasonable to begin supporting Visual Studio 2010 for > Windows builds of 3.3?
Interesting question. The following concerns have played a role in the past: - depending on the timing of the next VS release, Python may actually want to skip VS 2010, and move right to VS 2012 (say). - users have expressed concerns that they constantly need to upgrade VS releases when developing for Python. With VS Express, that concern may be reduced - but you still need to buy a full license if you want to support AMD64. - users have also expressed concerns that old VS versions become unavailable; of course, these are different users (since the first ones have already bought copies of VS 2008). The counter-argument is that you can still get cheap copies on Ebay, but that may be a red herring. - every time this comes up, people also suggest that we should stop building with VS, and use gcc in the first place. > Does it make sense to start this > process now for a change to 2010? I'll abstain from a vote here, and I think it essentially comes down to voting (or somebody putting the foot down saying "I want this now", which really was the way it worked the last time(s)). Somebody would need to take charge of this, and fix all the issues that come up: incompatibilities, generation of backwards-compatible project files, MSI packaging, getting licenses to buildbot operators. So if you want to lead this, and the votes are generally in favor, go ahead. Be prepared to do this *again* before the 3.3 release when switching to the next VS release (and yes, Microsoft's timing had been so unfortunate in the past that such a switch would have occurred just before the first beta release of Python). > If it's not feasible to release 3.3 from a 2010 build, when might we be > able to make the change? If we don't switch for 3.3, we'll definitely switch to VS 2012. > I'm willing to do the work on this, but I just want to make sure it's a > worthwhile effort. See above: it may or may not. 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/archive%40mail-archive.com
