New submission from STINNER Victor: Steve Dower wrote this comment on my PR https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/1544 : "Ah, I see. This is fine then - I have very little interest in doing much work to support the old build files (as they are explicitly unsupported)." Copy of my reply: "I have very little interest in doing much work to support the old build files (as they are explicitly unsupported)." Wait wait wait... I fail to follow progress on the Windows build system, so I rely on the devguide which I expect to be up to date, and the guide says: https://docs.python.org/devguide/setup.html#windows-compiling "Python 2.7 uses Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, which is most easily obtained through an MSDN subscription." I have a MSDN account, but after 30 min, I failed to get my MSDN number and I don't know my subscription is still valid or not (well, I guess that, it's expired). It took me 1 hour to find an old ISO of Visual Studio 2008, and not from microsoft.com :-( I didn't want to install VS 2008, but I just followed the devguide. ... Do you mean that VS 2010 must now be used and the devguide is just outdated? Moreover: we do have a buildbot using VS 2008. I'm now trying to fix all buildbots, so I had to fix issues on this VS 2008 buildbot too: http://bugs.python.org/issue30313 But I guess that it's ok to have a buildbot on a system not officially fully supported. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Build, Documentation, Windows messages: 293536 nosy: docs@python, haypo, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: devguide suggests to use VS 2008 to build Python 2.7, but VS 2008 is no more supported? versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30350> _______________________________________