On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:18 AM, <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > Zitat von Armin Rigo <ar...@tunes.org>: > > >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: >>> >>> One way would be to use one hg repo per version, and (maybe, if needed) >>> a master repo that has them as subrepos. >> >> >> Or have all versions in the same repo as usual (with branches), but >> have hg subrepos point to different repos: ones extracted from the >> main repo by containing only the correct branch. But it might be a >> bit delicate to pull this off. (hg clone takes a "-r" option and >> copies only things needed for the given revision or branch, but >> apparently we can't pass this option automatically to the cloning of >> subrepos. (Maybe it points out that subrepos are a hack best done >> without altogether, which is what we did in pypy.)) > > > I'd like to stress that we don't need any versioning here. wget and > tar would be sufficient, except that it's Windows, so we have neither > wget nor tar. However, including a PowerShell script may be an option; > most developers will have PowerShell already on their system. AFAICT, > PowerShell can do HTTP downloads and extract zip files.
I would hope we can just write a simple Python script to do this, rather than require PowerShell. I'm 99.99999% certain anyone building Python on Windows will already have a version of Python installed. Plus, they're going to need it anyway to build OpenSSL (see PCbuild/build_ssl.py and the references to it in VS projects). _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
