build curiosities of svn head (on WinXP)

[David Murmann]

hi all!

i just built revision 41809 under winxp using a rather uncommon
setup (at least i think so). since i have no visual studio here,
i only used freely available tools: cygwin to get the source, the
microsoft compiler/linker and NAnt (nant.sf.net) as the build tool
to interpret the .vcproj-files (which may be the uncommon part).

as far as i understand this setup is not supported in any way, but
i noticed two problems, that could be interesting for others as well.

first, the ProjectGUID's in "pythoncore.vcproj" and "pcbuild.sln"
mismatch, i fixed that locally by changing "pythoncore.vcproj"
(maybe visual studio is ignoring/shadowing this problem?).

second, the build order in "pcbuild.sln" for elementtree seems to be
wrong, nant tried to build elementtree before pythoncore (which failed).
i fixed this by building elementtree separately.

so my question is: will something like this be changed to support this
setup (or at least to get the project files "cleaner")? should i submit
a patch and see if it gets accepted?

apart from that everything went fine, and i could reproduce the expected
failure (ATM) of the regression test suite:

  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/059033.html

btw, if anyone is interested in the (rather small) build-script for
nant, just ask,

so long, David.