From cb8c0485ab1e3aeb4f64e76177aabbc6eba5a0ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zachary Ware Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 22:34:59 -0500 Subject: bpo-30450: Add NEWS and whatsnew (GH-2236) --- Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst | 6 ++++++ Misc/NEWS | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) 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 ========== diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 95ae431..65e9376 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -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) -- cgit v0.12