[Python-buildbots] Windows 2.7 Builders

[David Bolen]

Zachary,

> I'd like to just add a builder to your XP bot that builds in PC/VS9.0
> in addition to the regular builder in PCbuild.  That will allow us to
> keep track of whether a change breaks one build or both.  Once I have
> a VS9-only builder set up, if you want to remove VS2010 from any of
> your other bots, let me know and I'll switch its 2.7 builder to use
> VS9-only.

The additional builder sounds fine.  I don't have any particular need
to remove 2010 anywhere, but wasn't sure if perhaps by having it still
installed we were glossing over something on the buildslaves that a
third party might run into, which doesn't seem to be the case.

In terms of switching any other builders over, I suppose the intent
should be to use whatever scripts are used for the final python.org
builds, so we test what will be distributed.  I realize the actual
compiler in use has far more ramifications than the build process, but
might as well stay as aligned as possible.  I'm guessing that's
PCBuild, so no change to the existing builders, and the buildslaves
keep the 2010 dependency for 2.7.

But for third party independent builds, it appears like the 2.7.12
documentation (https://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html) still
lists PCBuild and 2008.  So perhaps that should be updated to PC/VS9.0
similar to the earlier versions?  At which point, keeping at least one
builder using PC/VS9.0 definitely seems like a good idea.

-- David