Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat May 23 03:35:41 CEST 2015

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On 5/22/2015 6:53 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:

> I'll answer my own question here.  According to PCbuild/readme.txt:
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>     This script will use the env.bat script to detect one of Visual
>     Studio 2015, 2013, 2012, or 2010, any of which may be used to build
>     Python, though only Visual Studio 2015 is officially supported.

Not supporting 2010 should be contingent on the availability of just the 
2015 compiler -- as is possible for the 2010 compiler -- without several 
gigabytes of extra fluff.  This is still in the future.

> I'll admit I'm puzzled by the wisdom of using unsupported compilers on
> buildbots.

Until the expected future arrives, I think we should keep the 2010 buildbot.

tjr

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