Hi, On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > Clicking this link > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14597 > on this Developer Guide page > http://docs.python.org/devguide/setup.html#windows > now returns a > "We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found." > page with search results. > > The first search result > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/nl/Vsexpressinstall/thread/2dc7ae6a-a0e7-436b-a1b3-3597ffac6a97 > suggests that one must first go to http://profile.microsoft.com > which forwards to the live.com login page. Logging in with my un-expired > non-developer account did not make the original link work. > > The mdsn page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/ > has Visual Studio / Download trial, which leads to > https://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads > which lists 2012 and 2010 but not 2008. > > I suspect that an msdn account is required for most people to get 2008. > > A later link leads to > https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=34# > which suggests that vc++2008 express is also available to verified degree > students. I don't qualify so I will not try. >
I did try a few weeks ago, when I had to download a copy of Windows for a project. Long story short, after 30+ minutes and a number of confirmation emails I reached a point where I had a couple of new accounts on MSDN/Dreamspark, a "purchased" free copy of Windows in my e-cart, and some .exe I had to download in order to download and verify the purchased copy. That's where I gave up. Best Regards, Ezio Melotti > So it would appear that section "1.1.3.3. Windows" of "1. Getting Started" > (setup.rst) needs further revision. > > Or perhaps we could persuade Microsoft to let us distribute it ourselves so > Windows versions of 2.7 do not become increasingly unusable. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > _______________________________________________ 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
