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authorChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-09-29 17:05:23 (GMT)
committerChristian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de>2013-09-29 17:05:23 (GMT)
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Issue #19130: Correct PCbuild/readme.txt, Python 3.3 and 3.4 require VS 2010
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
-rw-r--r--PCbuild/readme.txt8
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3f82f5a..6c17c04 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ Documentation
Build
-----
+- Issue #19130: Correct PCbuild/readme.txt, Python 3.3 and 3.4 require VS 2010.
+
- Issue #18596: Support the use of address sanity checking in recent versions
of clang and GCC by appropriately marking known false alarms in the small
object allocator. Patch contributed by Dhiru Kholia.
diff --git a/PCbuild/readme.txt b/PCbuild/readme.txt
index fb4a456..51f64503 100644
--- a/PCbuild/readme.txt
+++ b/PCbuild/readme.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
Building Python using VC++ 10.0
-------------------------------
+-------------------------------
This directory is used to build Python for Win32 and x64 platforms, e.g.
Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows Server 2008. In order to build 32-bit
-debug and release executables, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition is
+debug and release executables, Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition is
required at the very least. In order to build 64-bit debug and release
-executables, Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition is required at the very
+executables, Visual Studio 2010 Standard Edition is required at the very
least. In order to build all of the above, as well as generate release builds
-that make use of Profile Guided Optimisation (PG0), Visual Studio 2008
+that make use of Profile Guided Optimisation (PG0), Visual Studio 2010
Professional Edition is required at the very least. The official Python
releases are built with this version of Visual Studio.