[Python-Dev] More detailed build instructions for Windows

[Brett Cannon]

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 15:40, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Am 03.07.2010 16:34, schrieb Christian Heimes:
>> Am 03.07.2010 09:00, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis":
>>>> I'm trying to test out a patch to add a timeout in subprocess.py on
>>>> Windows, so I need to build Python with Visual Studio.  The docs say
>>>> the files in PCBuild/ work with VC 9 and newer.
>>>
>>> Which docs did you look at specifically that said "and newer"? That
>>> would be a bug.
>>
>> The readme.txt in the PCbuild directory contains the sentence "Microsoft
>> Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition is required at the very least". The
>> wording could be interpreted as "2008 at very least" instead of "Express
>> Edition at very least".
>
> That's what I expected to get as an answer - interestingly enough, Reid
> was looking at some other place (the FAQ) that literally said "and
> newer". I'd call that an error, even though, technically, converting the
> projects to VS 2010 "ought to work" (i.e. it did after I committed some
> fixes to make it work).

FAQ updated with "and newer" stripped out.

-Brett


>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
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