[python-committers] MSDN Subscriptions/Renewals

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le 14/11/2014 17:47, Steve Dower a écrit :
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> Le 14/11/2014 03:11, Nick Coghlan a écrit :
>>>     Oh, that reminds me - we should mention the availability of Visual
>>>     Studio Community edition on python-dev, and likely update the
>>>     developers guide to recommend it to Windows based contributors.
>>>
>>>     I'll write something up for the list, and post a tracker issue for
>>>     the latter aspect.
>>>
>>>
>>> Oops, belay that - I realised there are associated problems with C 
>>> runtime versioning. I'll chime in on Steve's VS2015 thread instead.
>>
>> The Express versions should be sufficient, except for testing 64-bit builds.
> 
> And Paul Moore is very close to having cloud-based VM images set up for people to do 64-bit builds, though I think he's skipping the VS 2010 installation.
> 
> As I understand it, there'll be a VS Community 2015 as well (though the Express editions are still part of the daily builds...), and if not the recent Express for Desktop builds don't have the 64-bit bug, so there'll certainly be a free VS that can develop/build/debug Python.
> 
> Hopefully we're quickly getting to the point where open-source devs
don't need to worry about MSDN subscriptions :)

There's still the OS license, though :)

Regards

Antoine.