On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:06 PM, <li...@gabriel-striewe.de> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:55:29PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: >> On 8/9/2010 2:47 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: >> >> Terry Reedy: >> > >> >> MingW has become less attractive in recent years by the difficulty >> >> in downloading and installing a current version and finding out how to >> >> do so. Some projects have moved on to the TDM packaging of MingW. >> >> >> >> http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/ >> >> Someone else deserves credit for writing that and giving that link ;-) > > Yes, that was a great link, thanks. It works fine for me. > > The reason I was bringing up this topic again was that I think the gnu > autotools have been made for exactly this purpose, to port software to > different platforms,
Autotools only help for posix-like platforms. They are certainly a big hindrance on windows platform in general, cheers, David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
