[issue31932] setup.py cannot find vcversall.bat on MSWin 8.1 if installed in user AppData

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> added the comment:

Duplicate of issue23246. AFAIK, nothing has changed since then.

The PR in its current form is not acceptable - there is a totally reliable registry key for finding the compiler, which is better than guessing a path. See the code in setuptools (and also make the case for why we should help people to build extensions without the fixes provided by setuptools, but do it on the existing issue).

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resolution:  -> duplicate
stage: patch review -> resolved
status: open -> closed
superseder:  -> distutils fails to locate vcvarsall with Visual C++ Compiler for Python

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