The Windows build now depends on Python 3.6 to fetch externals, but it
will be downloaded via NuGet (which is downloaded via PowerShell) if it
is not available via `py -3.6`. This means the only thing that must be
installed on a modern Windows box to do a full build of CPython with all
extensions is Visual Studio.
Cherry-picked from 51599e2bdd, parts of 40a23e8899, parts of 68d663cf85, d5cd21d75a, and possibly others that I've missed.
Also:
* Rename db -> bsddb for disambiguity
* Update sqlite3 to 3.14.2.0 since it's the version we use on 3.x, and it's simpler to just use it than to also upload the old version to cpython-source-deps
* Add PCbuild/*.ilk to .gitignore
* bpo-31221: patchcheck ignores external libraries (#3109)
Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py now ignores changes in directories which
are copies of external libraries:
* Modules/_ctypes/libffi_msvc/
* Modules/_ctypes/libffi_osx/
* Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/
* Modules/expat/
* Modules/zlib/
Drop also support for Mercurial, since CPython migrated to Git.
Exclude also libmpdec
patchcheck: exclude also libffi_osx and libffi_msvc
(cherry picked from commit 4a347ce426)
* Exclude also Modules/_ctypes/libffi on Python 2.7
* Remove _decimal/libmpdec, not in Python 2.7
Additional changes needed to backport:
- dropped legacy SVN support from patchcheck
- use subprocess.PIPE to silence expected error output
- don't try to use subprocess.Popen as a context manager
- don't try to pass a keyword argument to str.split()
(cherry picked from commit 482f7a274f)
This changes the main documentation, doc strings, source code comments, and a
couple error messages in the test suite. In some cases the word was removed
to fix the grammar.
Issue #26799: Fix python-gdb.py: don't get C types once when the Python code is
loaded, but get C types on demand. The C types can change if python-gdb.py is
loaded before the Python executable. Patch written by Thomas Ilsche.
* Add py-bt-full command
* py-bt now gives an output similar to a regular Python traceback
* py-bt indicates:
- if the garbage collector is running
- if the thread is waiting for the GIL
- detect PyCFunction_Call to get the name of the builtin function
The old project files move to PC/VS9.0 and remain supported.
VS2008 is still required to build 2.7; VS2010 (or later, plus Windows SDK 7.1)
is *also* required to use the new project files.
Christian Heimes
Zachary Ware
Steve Dower
Victor Stinner
Nick Coghlan
Senthil Kumaran
Terry Jan Reedy
Serhiy Storchaka
Martin Panter
Ezio Melotti
Benjamin Peterson