On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:17 PM, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:09:45 +1000 >> Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Lots of folks are happy with POSIX emulation layers on Windows, as >> > they're OK with "basically works" rather than "works like any other >> > native application". "Basically works" isn't sufficient for many >> > Python-on-Windows use cases though, so the core ABI is a platform >> > native one, rather than a POSIX emulation. >> > >> > This makes Python fit in more cleanly with other Windows applications, >> > but makes it harder to write Python applications that span both POSIX >> > and Windows. >> >> I don't really understanding why that's the case. Only the >> building and packaging may be more difficult, and that assumes you're >> familiar with mingw32. But mingw32, AFAIK, doesn't make the Windows >> runtime magically POSIX-compatible (Cygwin does, to some extent). >> > > mingw32 is a more compliant C compiler (VS2008 does not implement much > from C89) > That should read much C99, of course, otherwise VS 2008 would have been a completely useless C compiler ! David
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