<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 09:48, Barry Warsaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:barry@python.org">barry@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Aug 03, 2010, at 09:08 PM, Steve Holden wrote:<br>
<br>
>It's a little disappointing to discover that despite the relatively<br>
>large number of developers who have received MSDN licenses from<br>
>Microsoft, none if us have the time to make sure that the buildbots are<br>
>green for the 2.6.6 release.<br>
<br>
</div>Should note that I did try to build Python using my MSDN license for Windows 7<br>
and Visual Studio 2010. I only had an hour or so to attempt it, and did not<br>
succeed, though I think I got as far as trying to properly situate various<br>
dependent libraries (sqlite, ssl).<br>
<br>
If anybody's successfully navigated the twisty maze, would you be able to<br>
write something up on the wiki to describe the steps you've taken?<br>
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-Barry</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can expand the dev setup guide I wrote for the PSF Sprints to include the third-party stuff, then try to get that in wider circulation. I currently gloss over it to get a first-time contributor up and running quickly (since someone's first look into core dev is unlikely to be fixing sqlite).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I haven't tried the current codebase on VS2010 yet, but it's on my todo list.</div></div>