bpo-30450: Add NEWS and whatsnew (GH-2236)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 83e1c615a8d53206bdf4c3eb9879ce5685b10fa5..db1195461728b0ac76077d707853a654cc842b0a 100644 (file)
--- 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 95ae431c8b455ebf8921580a954f0b7b6430ecd6..65e9376f0317ae3615cdde46ac682977a04e3f76 100644 (file)
--- 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)