On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 14:00, Jason R. Coombs <jaraco@jaraco.com> wrote:
The second thing I notice is the scripts assume Visual Studio 2008. And while I recognize that Python is specifically built against Visual Studio 2008 for the official releases and that Visual Studio 2008 may be the only officially-supported build environment, later releases, such as Visual Studio 2010 are also adequate for testing purposes. I’ve been developing Python against Visual Studio 2010 for quite a while and it seems to be more than adequate. And while it’s not the responsibility of the scripts to accommodate such environments, if the scripts could allow for such environments, that would be nice.
2010 is adequate for limited use but the test suite doesn't pass, so I would be hesitant to add support and/or documentation for building with it until we actually support it the same as or in place of 2008.