Complete revamp of PCBuild8 directory.  Use subdirectories for each project under the main pcbuild solution.  Now make extensive use of property sheets to simplify project configuration. x64 build fully supported, and the process for building PGO version (Profiler Guided Optimization) simplified. All projects are now present, except _ssl, which needs to be reimplemented.  Also, some of the projects that require external libraries need extra work to fully compile on x64.

but the test passed on Linux and Solaris, hopefully other platforms too.

The locale "En" appears not to be valid on windows underi VisualStudio.2005.  Added "English" to the test_locale.py to make the testsuite pass for that build

Export function sanitize_the_mode from fileobject.c as _PyFile_SanitizeMode().  Use this function in posixmodule.c when implementing fdopen().  This fixes test_subprocess.py for a VisualStudio 2005 compile.

Remove functionality from test_datetime.test_main() that does reference count checking; 'regrtest.py -R' is the way to do this kind of testing.

Standardize on test.test_support.run_unittest() (as opposed to a mix of run_unittest() and run_suite()). Also, add functionality to run_unittest() that admits usage of unittest.TestLoader.loadTestsFromModule().

You might want to review this change as it's my first time.  Be gentle. :-)

Remove obsolete comment. Importing of .dll files has been discontinued, only .pyd files supported on windows now.

Make pythoncore compile cleanly with VisualStudio 2005.  Used an explicit typecast to get a 64 bit integer, and undefined the Yield macro that conflicts with winbase.h

Merge change 54909 from release25-maint:  Fix several minor issues discovered using code analysis in VisualStudio 2005 Team Edition

(as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
".cpp" too.

are ok now).

request was successfully received, understood, and accepted.
Now in these cases no error is raised. Also fixed tests.

all the object methods. This is the final step to close
the #451607 bug.

not cleared before __del__ is run.

Detect a conflict in the only file that should have outstanding changes
when this script is run.  This doesn't matter on the trunk, but does
when run on a branch.  Trunk always has the date set to today in
boilerplate.tex.  Each time a release is cut with a different date,
a conflict occurs.  (We could copy a known good version, but then
we would lose changes to this file.)

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2007-March/071796.html .

I've kept a couple of still-valid extra tests in test_descr, but didn't
bother to sort through the new comments and refactorings added in r53997
to see if some of them could be kept.  If so, they could go in a
follow-up check-in.