[New-bugs-announce] [issue45877] Inconsistency in minimal supported version of Microsoft Visual Studio

[Oleg Iarygin]

New submission from Oleg Iarygin <oleg at arhadthedev.net>:

According to PCbuild/readme.txt:

> Using this directory requires an installation of
> Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 (MSVC 14.1) of any edition.

However, Doc/using/windows.rst states that Visual Studio 2017 is not required and 2015 may be used instead:

> The source tree contains a build solution and project files for Microsoft
> Visual Studio 2015, which is the compiler used to build the official Python
> releases.

VS 2017 mention was introduced in GH-3418. So either PCbuild readme needs to relax its requirements back or windows.rst needs to be updated.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Build, Documentation
messages: 406826
nosy: arhadthedev, docs at python, steve.dower
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Inconsistency in minimal supported version of Microsoft Visual Studio
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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