On 8/7/2010 3:55 PM, li...@gabriel-striewe.de wrote: > Dear list, > > I was wondering whether there would ever be support for python to be > build by the mingw compiler suite. I found a few patches in the > internet but there were disagreeing comments on whether they are > functional or not. > > So I would like to ask the list whether there are any technical > reasons that this is so. I did a search on the python site for mingw, > but all I found are explanations how to compile python modules, but > not python itself. > > I know the question is why anybody should want to do so, but I do > think that a project which depends on a non-free compiler is not free > after all. > There have certainly been demonstrations that Python can be compiled with mingw, but as far as I am aware what's missing is a developer sufficiently motivated to integrate that build system into the distributions and maintain it.
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