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[Maritza Mendez <martitzam@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix@xxxxxxx>wrote:

> Maritza Mendez пишет:
> > Question: Does the Windows package of bzr really need to support more
> > than one version of python?
>
> Do you mean python-based installer?
>
> We have interest in both the python-based installer and the standalone
installer.


> >  I'm inclined to build bzr+friends for
> > python 2.6 or 2.7 and drop the legacy.
>
> I think if you build python-based installer only for python 2.6 it
> will be very good.
>
> That's where I plan to start.  I'd like to get all the way through one
build-chain first.


> >  I especially want to drop
> > MinGW.  I have the 32- and 64-bit MinGW compilers both working, but
> > again it's extra work which does not seem to add value now that we have
> > python 2.6 which I gather is built using VS200x anyway.
>
> I'm sure you don't need to use MinGW if you have proper copy of VS2008.
>
> That's really good to know.  Based on  "win32_build_setup.txt" I thought
maybe there was some reason we *had* to use the MinGW ports with Python 2.5
and earlier.

Thanks
~M