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Larry Hastings [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:larry@midwinter.com">mailto:larry@midwinter.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Larry Hastings<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 22, 2015 1530<br>
<b>To:</b> Steve Dower; Python Dev; python-committers<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Yury Selivanov; Benjamin Peterson<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [python-committers] Can we clean up
the buildbots please?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Is MSVS 2015 the only supported compiler for Python 3.5 on
Windows? What's the other buildbot using MSVS 2015?<br>
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I'll answer my own question here. According to PCbuild/readme.txt:<br>
<blockquote>This script will use the env.bat script to detect one of
Visual Studio 2015, 2013, 2012, or 2010, any of which may be used
to build Python, though only Visual Studio 2015 is officially
supported.<br>
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I'll admit I'm puzzled by the wisdom of using unsupported compilers
on buildbots. I guess it's a historical thing. But I gently
suggest that we should either upgrade those buildbots to a supported
compiler or remove them entirely. Definitely we should remove
unsupported the two unsupported platforms from the buildbots--that's
just crazy.<br>
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<i>/arry</i><br>
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