[Python-Dev] Appveyor builds fail on Windows for 3.6 backports.

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jun 24 02:00:11 EDT 2017


On 24 June 2017 at 06:14, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
> We could improve life for everyone even more if we built Tcl/Tk once per
> update and made it a binary dependency. Nobody is updating our version of it
> regularly anyway, and this would significantly improve build time in CI.

I'm pretty sure the *nix builds already default to using the system
Tcl/Tk, so figuring out a way to do something similar on Windows (and
then bundling the DLLs in the installer) would make sense to me.

Cheers,
Nick.

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