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

• Where: Vilnius, Lithuania

• When: after EuroPython, 12-14 july

• Organizer: Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan@ccpgames.com>

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.