[Python-ideas] Windows assistance for PEP 432 (CPython startup sequence)

[Brian Curtin]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've started work on the PEP 432 implementation at
> https://bitbucket.org/ncoghlan/cpython_sandbox/compare/pep432_modular_bootstrap..default#commits
>
> As part of that work, I'm also cleaning up some of the crazier things
> in the source tree layout, like "pythonrun" being this gigantic
> monolith covering interpreter initialisation, code execution and
> interpreter shutdown all in one file, as well as the source files for
> the application binaries being mixed in with the source files for
> standard library builtin and extension modules.
>
> This means I know I'm breaking the Windows builds. Rather than leaving
> that until the end, I'm looking for someone that's willing to take the
> changes from the "pep432_modular_bootstrap" in my sandbox repo, check
> what is needed to get them building on Windows, and then send me pull
> requests on BitBucket to fix them.

I'll try to take a look within the next few days.