[Python-checkins] r46472 - python/trunk/PCbuild8 python/trunk/PCbuild8/Uninstal.wse python/trunk/PCbuild8/_bsddb.vcproj python/trunk/PCbuild8/_ctypes.vcproj python/trunk/PCbuild8/_ctypes_test.vcproj python/trunk/PCbuild8/_elementtree.vcproj pytho

[Tim Peters]

[Kristján V. Jónsson, on PCbuild8/]
> Well, I was sort of hoping that it would "maintain itself" in an open source
> manner,

It may or may not -- depends on user interest.  So far you appear to
be the only one playing in this directory, which may or may not change
(I expect it will, but can't know that).

> but if it needs an official maintainter, we can do that.

It should have a maintainer at least at the start.  That can't, e.g.,
be me, since I don't have .NET 2005 and have no current plan to
acquire it.  You're elected :-)

> Particularly, we are interested in input from the community on how better to
> set up the projects in VS to perform the profile-guilded optimization step with
> minimal user input.  Our current approach relies on a file called
> pythoncore_pgo_link.txt which needs to be manually updated when the project
> changes significantly.

Starting a discussion on comp.lang.python should find people
interested in working on that.

> Martin, you have been doing work on getting python to be officially supported
> with VC 8.  I remember that we discussed this at the pycon sprint.  My VC8 build
> of 2.5 indeed did crash in the regression suite.  I have some ideas on how to fix
> the C runtime problem.  I will try some things locally and then bounce them off
> you and Tim.

The python-dev mailing list is appropriate for that (mailing lists
generally work better than private email for hammering out tech
problems -- more eyeballs, more aggregate knowledge and "spare time"
to tap).

> ...
> p.s. do you think I ought to subscribe to python-checkins?

Everyone at the Iceland sprint was requested to do so in one of the
messages to the NFS list before the sprint.  So long as you continue
making checkins, yes, you should stay subscribed to python-checkins
(and python-dev), because that's where replies to checkin messages end
up.