[Python-ideas] Windows assistance for PEP 432 (CPython startup sequence)

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've started work on the PEP 432 implementation at
>> https://bitbucket.org/ncoghlan/cpython_sandbox/compare/pep432_modular_bootstrap..default#commits
>>
>> As part of that work, I'm also cleaning up some of the crazier things
>> in the source tree layout, like "pythonrun" being this gigantic
>> monolith covering interpreter initialisation, code execution and
>> interpreter shutdown all in one file, as well as the source files for
>> the application binaries being mixed in with the source files for
>> standard library builtin and extension modules.
>>
>> This means I know I'm breaking the Windows builds. Rather than leaving
>> that until the end, I'm looking for someone that's willing to take the
>> changes from the "pep432_modular_bootstrap" in my sandbox repo, check
>> what is needed to get them building on Windows, and then send me pull
>> requests on BitBucket to fix them.
>
> I'll try to take a look within the next few days.

Richard Oudkerk has given me a patch at least for the VS 2010 files.
(We discovered in the process that bitbucket only allows pull requests
for forked repos back to their parent - no pull requests between
sibling repos).

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia