You might be interested in a project funded by NumFOCUS + PSF to make the mingw ecosystem work with CPython.
http://mingwpy.github.io/ -- Andy On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:24 PM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:05:19 -0800, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > But what do you really think? > > > > IMO, windows builds probably should do both visual studio and mingw. > > That is, there probably should be two builds on windows, since there's > > no clear consensus about which to use. > > > > I certainly prefer mingw over visual studio - and I have adequate > > bandwidth for either. > > I don't think there is much if any objection to the idea of making CPython > compilable with mingw, we just need the official supported release to > be the VS one for compatibility reasons. > > But, there has historically been a lack of a clear target in the mingw > space for someone to actually produce a working generalized port (as > opposed to, say, cygwin), much less generate a set of reviewable patches > that could be incorporated in to the repository. (Among other things > for the latter we would need a mingw buildbot, and no one has stepped > forward on that front at all, as far as I know.) > > I think there has been some progress lately, but it is a hard problem > and needs more volunteer time. Ideally we'd have someone who is all of > passionate enough about it, knowledgeable enough about it, and patient > enough to work with the others in the community who need to be involved. > > --David > _______________________________________________ > 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/andy.terrel%40gmail.com >
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