Jeffrey Armstrong added the comment:

> ...the fact that this issue has been open for almost 2 years is quite 
> ridiculous.

I thought that I'd add a little statistic for everyone that might put this bug 
into perspective.  Since this bug was opened, the MinGW installer has been 
downloaded about 32,000,000 (32 million) times per sf.net:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/stats/timeline?dates=2011-07-26+to+2013-06-23

If we take a naive approach, that's 32 million compiler installations that 
can't build Python extensions without manually modifying distutils first.  

That statistic doesn't include the multitude of people installing other builds 
of GCC for Windows (including MinGW-W64, a whole other unsupported version of 
GCC, but that's a different bug).

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