Re: [Python-Dev] msvccompiler.py: some remarks

2006-06-30 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > On 6/29/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We should remove/change this comment. It is utterly misleading. > > To a warning/error stating that you miss a compiler? Correct: that you miss VS 2003, or should request mingw. >> Forget about Vis

Re: [Python-Dev] msvccompiler.py: some remarks

2006-06-30 Thread Paul Moore
On 6/30/06, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Forget about Visual Studio 8 and .NET 2.0. It won't help here. > > I only have .NET 1.1 and 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 (8) installed. Why > should I forget about it? Is Python compiled with much older compilers > and thus unab

Re: [Python-Dev] msvccompiler.py: some remarks

2006-06-29 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
Hi Martin, On 6/29/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We should remove/change this comment. It is utterly misleading. To a warning/error stating that you miss a compiler? > I meant to leave this as a per-shell choice. If you set MSSdk, you > indicate that the environment you crea

Re: [Python-Dev] msvccompiler.py: some remarks

2006-06-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > I am testing/working on some Python code on Windows. > During this I encounter some issues where I am being told I don't have > the .Net SDK installed. So I started investigating this issue and came > to http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/index.htm