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| author | Zachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com> | 2017-06-16 03:34:59 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-06-16 03:34:59 (GMT) |
| commit | cb8c0485ab1e3aeb4f64e76177aabbc6eba5a0ef (patch) | |
| tree | 8b45c697a625080f747f892d7f99d28d1b9e2068 | |
| parent | 116dd5eba60a940b35db6aaf4e8c998ac30ad440 (diff) | |
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bpo-30450: Add NEWS and whatsnew (GH-2236)
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index 83e1c61..db11954 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -317,6 +317,12 @@ Build and C API Changes :c:func:`PyOS_AfterFork_Child`. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16500`.) +* The Windows build process no longer depends on Subversion to pull in external + sources, a Python script is used to download zipfiles from GitHub instead. + If Python 3.6 is not found on the system (via ``py -3.6``), NuGet is used to + download a copy of 32-bit Python for this purpose. (Contributed by Zachary + Ware in :issue:`30450`.) + Deprecated ========== @@ -1134,6 +1134,11 @@ IDLE Windows ------- +- bpo-30450: The build process on Windows no longer depends on Subversion, + instead pulling external code from GitHub via a Python script. If Python 3.6 + is not found on the system (via ``py -3.6``), NuGet is used to download a + copy of 32-bit Python. + - bpo-29579: Removes readme.txt from the installer. - Issue #25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun) |