Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote:
First of all, I have put some work into pcbuild8 recently and it works well. I am trying to drum up momentum for work on PCBuild8 next europython. See http://wiki.python.org/moin/EuroPython2007Sprints
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I don't find the need to have separate object directories convincing: For building the Win32/Win64 binaries, I have separate checkouts *anyway*, since all the add-on libraries would have to support multi-arch builds, but I think they don't.
No they don't, but that doesn't mean that you need different checkouts for python, only the others. Anyway, this is indeed something I'd like to see addressed. I don't think we should ditch cross-compilation. It should simplify a lot of stuff, including buildbot setup and so on (if we get the buildbot infrastructure to support it). It is also very cumbersome, if you are working on a project, to have the binaries all end up in the same place. Doing interactive work on python, I frequently compile both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions for testing and it would be downright silly to have to rebuild everything every time.
I would personally like to see Python "skip" VS 2005 altogether, as it will be soon superceded by Orcas. Unfortunately, it's unclear how long Microsoft will need to release Orcas (and also, when Python 2.6 will be released), so I would like to defer that question by a few months. I think this is a bit unrealistic. Here we are in the middle of 2007, VS2005 has just got SP1, and VS2003 is still the "official" compiler. PCBuild8 is ready, it just needs a little bit of extra love and buildbots to make us able to release PGO versions of x86 and x64.
Given the delay for getting even this far, waiting for Orcas and then someone to create PCBuild9, and then getting it up and running and so on will mean waiting another two years.
Addressing only the issues of PCBuild8 and 64-bit architectures, I have tried to establish "free" buildbot support for the 64-bit architectures without any real success. Should the PSF be considering paying for infrastructure that will support 64-bit build reporting?
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