Comments on: Wanted: Win32-savvy developers for core Python

By: tim

tim — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:15:22 +0000

@Tim Brown: can you elaborate? I’ve used svn/TortoiseSVN and hg/TortoiseHg successfully. Obviously they all use http:// so if you do have proxy issues that might be why. The mercurial mirror at http://code.python.org/hg has downloadable snapshots, in case that helps.

Feel free to contact me directly or to ask on the mailing lists if you still can’t get them.

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:08:19 +0000

The problem I’ve always hit is not being able to get the sources out.
I have yet to find a Windows based tool which I can make work. Which is more than likely a combination of the NTLM proxy we have at work and me not understanding the instructions :)

By: Mike Driscoll

Mike Driscoll — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:21:09 +0000

Alright. I’ll give that a try. Thanks!

- Mike

By: tim

tim — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:57:46 +0000

The great thing is: for Python development you don’t need to “learn” VS at all. Install a (free) copy of VS2008 Express and check out the Python source from Subversion. Then in a command window:

cd (path to root of checkout)
tools\buildbot\external.bat
cd (path to root of checkout)\pcbuild
env.bat
build.bat -d

and you end up with a python_d.exe which is a debug build of Python. I can explain this in more detail if you want, or the docs I linked to in the post have the same or similar approaches described.

By: Mike Driscoll

Mike Driscoll — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:52:53 +0000

I can probably spare some time here and there to help out. However, I never figured out VS2003 and I don’t have a copy of VS2008. Do you have any recommendations for how to learn it?