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authorZachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>2017-06-16 03:34:59 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-06-16 03:34:59 (GMT)
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bpo-30450: Add NEWS and whatsnew (GH-2236)
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@@ -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
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