Support overriding path to VS without referring to the registry.

pylib/gyp/MSVSVersion.py

Index: pylib/gyp/MSVSVersion.py
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--- pylib/gyp/MSVSVersion.py	(revision 1537)
+++ pylib/gyp/MSVSVersion.py	(working copy)
@@ -355,6 +355,13 @@
     '2012': ('11.0',),
     '2012e': ('11.0',),
   }
+  override_path = os.environ.get('GYP_MSVS_OVERRIDE_PATH')
+  if override_path:
+    msvs_version = os.environ.get('GYP_MSVS_VERSION')
+    if not msvs_version or 'e' not in msvs_version:
+      raise ValueError('GYP_MSVS_OVERRIDE_PATH requires GYP_MSVS_VERSION to be '
+                       'set to an "e" version (e.g. 2010e)')

[Nico, 2013/01/02 17:23:26]

Might be easier to silently default to 2010e?

+    return _CreateVersion(msvs_version, override_path, sdk_based=True)
   version = str(version)
   versions = _DetectVisualStudioVersions(version_map[version], 'e' in version)
   if not versions: