Change error message to indicate that VS2003 is necessary to build extension modules, not the .NET SDK.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
index d725905..c96d527 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
self.set_macro("FrameworkSDKDir", net, "sdkinstallroot")
except KeyError, exc: #
raise DistutilsPlatformError, \
- ("The .NET Framework SDK needs to be installed before "
+ ("Visual Studio 2003 needs to be installed before "
"building extensions for Python.")
p = r"Software\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\Product"