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.
The sociological problem is that currently not enough advocates of using
a free-as-in-thought compiler both can and will provide enough
free-as-in-beer volunteer time to deal with the sociological and
technical problems. That could change someday.
I suspect that the persons who first ported Python to MSDOS simply used
what they were used to using, perhaps in their paid job. And I am sure
that is still true of at least some of the people doing Windows support
today.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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