Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Trent Nelson
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:23:14PM -0800, Trent Nelson wrote: > * Updates to externals/(tcl|tk)-8.5.9.x so that they both build with > VS2010. Before I go updating tcl/tk, any thoughts on bumping our support to the latest revision, 8.5.11? I guess the same question applies to al

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:41, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:37, Catalin Iacob wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" >> wrote: >> ... >>> P.S. Here is my personal list of requirements and non-requirements: >> ... >>> - must generate binaries that run on W

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:37, Catalin Iacob wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > ... >> P.S. Here is my personal list of requirements and non-requirements: > ... >> - must generate binaries that run on Windows XP > > I recently read about Firefox switching to VS201

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Catalin Iacob
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: ... > P.S. Here is my personal list of requirements and non-requirements: ... > - must generate binaries that run on Windows XP I recently read about Firefox switching to VS2010 and therefore needing to drop support for Windows 2000, XP RT

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 14:23, Trent Nelson wrote: >    Brian, what are your plans?  Are you going to continue working in >    hg.python.org/sandbox/vs2010port then merge everything over when >    ready?  I have some time available to work on this for the next >    three weeks or so and would like

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-02-01 Thread Trent Nelson
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:54:31PM -0800, mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: > > Is this considered a new feature that has to be in by the first beta? > > I'm hoping to have it completed much sooner than that so we can get > > mileage on it, but is there a cutoff for changing the compiler? > > At some point

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I... I think I might have already done this, inadvertently. I > needed an x64 VS2010 debug build of Subversion/APR*/Python a few > weeks ago -- forgetting the fact that we're still on VS2008. There is a lot of duplication of work going on here: at least four people have done the sam

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-26 Thread martin
Is this considered a new feature that has to be in by the first beta? I'm hoping to have it completed much sooner than that so we can get mileage on it, but is there a cutoff for changing the compiler? At some point, I'll start doing this myself if it hasn't been done by then, and I would certai

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-26 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 15:11, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 15:01, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >>> I previously completed the port at my old company (but could not >>> release it), and I have a good bit of it completed for us at >>> http://hg.python.org/sandbox/vs2010port/. That rep

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-17 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 15:01, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> I previously completed the port at my old company (but could not >> release it), and I have a good bit of it completed for us at >> http://hg.python.org/sandbox/vs2010port/. That repo is a little bit >> behind 'default' but updating it sho

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I previously completed the port at my old company (but could not > release it), and I have a good bit of it completed for us at > http://hg.python.org/sandbox/vs2010port/. That repo is a little bit > behind 'default' but updating it shouldn't pose any problems. So: do you agree that we switch? D

Re: [Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-17 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 14:43, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > It seems a number of people are interested that the Python trunk > switches to Visual Studio 2010 *now*. I've been hesitant to agree > to such a change, as I still hope that Python can skip over VS 2010 > (a.k.a.  VS 10), and go straight to

[Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

2012-01-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
It seems a number of people are interested that the Python trunk switches to Visual Studio 2010 *now*. I've been hesitant to agree to such a change, as I still hope that Python can skip over VS 2010 (a.k.a. VS 10), and go straight to VS 11. However, I just learned that VS 11 supposed ready VS 10