[issue35067] Use vswhere instead of _distutils_findvs

Change by Steve Dower : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: -Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue35067] Use vswhere instead of _distutils_findvs

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset e2cf819539c836b670bf2ea4dd3c72ee39e084f1 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-35067: Remove _distutils_findvs and use vswhere.exe instead. (GH-10095) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e2cf819539c836b670bf2ea4dd3c72ee39e084f1 ---

[issue35067] Use vswhere instead of _distutils_findvs

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[issue35067] Use vswhere instead of _distutils_findvs

Steve Dower added the comment: New changeset 53125a53f483db0af76249b6af6efcdc200eb421 by Steve Dower in branch 'master': bpo-35067: Remove _distutils_findvs and use vswhere.exe instead. (GH-10095) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/53125a53f483db0af76249b6af6efcdc200eb421 --

[issue35067] Use vswhere instead of _distutils_findvs

Change by Steve Dower : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +9428 stage: needs patch -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pytho

[issue35067] Use vswhere instead of _distutils_findvs

New submission from Steve Dower : We have much simpler needs for distutils that don't require the more complex build/dependencies we currently have. We should remove the extra native module and just shell out to vswhere.exe, which is always included in the VS installer in a known location. -