[issue1447] patch to make msvccompiler.py work with vs 2005(MSVC8)

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: tiran is correct. distutils should work without having to invoke a VS build environment. Relying on that environment would have worked way back to VC6 and earlier, but it would reduce the ease of use of distutils. Rejecting the patch. -- nosy: +loewis

[issue1447] patch to make msvccompiler.py work with vs 2005(MSVC8)

Christian Heimes added the comment: I've checked your patch. It's not enough to move to VS 2005 as the default compiler. People expect python setup.py to work w/o opening a VS 2005 Command Prompt. -- nosy: +tiran __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[issue1447] patch to make msvccompiler.py work with vs 2005(MSVC8)

Changes by Christian Heimes: -- components: +Installation keywords: +patch versions: +Python 2.6, Python 3.0 -Python 2.5 __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ _

[issue1447] patch to make msvccompiler.py work with vs 2005(MSVC8)

New submission from zouguangxian: It seems that the directory information of MSVC8 *just* can be got from environment variable instead of registry. This patch make me compile pywin32 with MSVC8(VS 2005). -- files: msvccompiler.py.diff messages: 57530 nosy: weck severity: normal status