[Python-Dev] Switching to Visual Studio 2010

[Brian Curtin]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 15:11, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 15:01, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> 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 shouldn't pose any problems.
>>
>> So: do you agree that we switch? Do you volunteer to drive the change?
>
> I do, and I'll volunteer.

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?