On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > How do you know this isn't a problem, since you haven't *tested* with > MSVC? > Why on Earth would you want to test your PEP work with an unsupported > Windows compiler and runtime, rather than with the officially supported > compiler and runtime?
This discussion revolved around supporting MinGW in addition to MSVC. If it had been supported when I was doing that, I could have spun myself up a Windows build and tested it. Since it was (and so far still is) not, the hassle of hunting down a valid MSVC that could build for Win XP (as that's what my test box runs) was simply not worthwhile. My point is that there is no community fragmentation happening here; the only fragmentation is of binary distribution of extension modules, and there are several ways in which this needn't be a problem. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
