Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > Well, VS 2010 is probably a multi-GB download and install. Besides, > having to juggle between two different VS versions will quickly become > confusing.
Sure. However, it is not feasible to keep the build systems for many VS versions up-to-date, just because contributors are shy of installing the current version. Tracking two build systems (autoconf and VS) is already difficult enough. > Speaking as a non-native Windows developer, there are enough hoops I > must jump through to do occasional testing under a Windows VM. So I > might simply stop caring. This is free software. If you don't want to care, you don't have to. It's the same as switching from Subversion to Mercurial: we probably lost some contributors who never bothered to learn Mercurial. That didn't stop us from switching. I expect that most occasional contributors will find it easier to use VS 2010 than VS 2008. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14813> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
