On 23/09/2014 18:05, Steve Dower wrote:
I'm also considering/experimenting with installing into "Program Files" by default, but I suspect that isn't going to work out yet.
I'd like to see that go forward: I think it's increasingly difficult to justify Python's position at c:\pythonxx. But it does run the risk of
breaking All The Things. When it was discussed, people spoke about symlinks (or hardlinks / junctions / whatever) in the appropriate places to support hardcoded paths, but I don't know how feasible that will turn out to be.
I'd like to move the Windows versions onto the next release of VC (currently "VC 14" until the branding team figures out what to call it). There isn't a promised RTM date for VC 14 yet, so it looks like the best available compiler by Beta 1 will be a "Go Live" RC. (The "Go Live" marking basically means "we think this is ready for use, but expect a round of minor updates/fixes soon - the compiler is least likely to be updated, my guess is that it'll be Visual Studio UI mostly).
My only real misgiving here is that, for a few years, we'll need *three* versions installed to build the active branches: 2008 for 2.7; 2010 for 3.4; and 2014 for 3.5. Am I wrong?
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