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Visual Studio 2005 Sprint

This sprint has been canceled due to lack of interest

This is a sprint suggestion to work on making Visual Studio 2005 a fully supported build platform for python 2.5 and 2.6

Visual Studio 2005 has been availible for more than two years but still it is not an officially supported compiler for python. The benefits of using it are:

  • greater performance, particularly through profiler guided optimization
  • cross compilation for amd64 platform.

Although the PCBuild8 subdirectory is availible in the release25-maint branch and the trunk, a few things need to be done to make it complete:

  • Fixup dependency on externals for some modules (bz2 etc), particularly for amd64
  • Polish automatic PGO builds
  • Fix and polish install script generation, and CRT redistribution
  • Work on setting up a buildbot

Please contact me at <kristjan@ccpgames.com> if you think this is a worthwhile project and want to participate.