[Python-buildbots] Windows 2.7 Builders

[David Bolen]

Interesting - I probably would have assumed removing 2010 was safe for
2.7 as well.  However, all of my 2.7 builders (XP/7/8/10) currently
have both 2008 and 2010 so any dependency on 2010 would go unnoticed.

Assuming the 2010 dependency is unintentional, or we specifically want
to test without it, the XP slave no longer builds anything but 2.7, so
I could actually uninstall 2010 from that machine without affecting
any other builders, or requiring any special configuration to avoid a
2010 installation.

-- David

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Jeremy Kloth <jeremy.kloth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was recently cleaning up my buildbot, clearing space, removing
> unused software, ..., and decided to remove MSVC 2010 as no supported
> Python uses that compiler.  Well, to my surprise, actually I forgot,
> you do need MSVC 2010 *AND* 2008 to build 2.7 by default.  It has been
> since reinstalled and the buildbot is chugging along happily.
>
> With that, do we have any buildbots that use *just* 2008?  Or does the
> 2.7 compiler package from Microsoft contain the needed bits that are
> provided by installing Visual Studio 2010?
>
> I think my buildslave has enough resources to support another builder
> for that configuration (VC9 only) if that is something we are
> interested in doing.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Jeremy Kloth
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