mattf: > 3) -There's a problem with development under Windows. It's possibile to compile Python with MinGW, and to create extensions with it. So some site can host a single zip file that contains both MinGW and Python compiled with it, all ready and set. A person not much expert can then create compiled small extensions in a short time without too much complexities. (Or maybe the D language can be packed into that, instead of MinGW, to do similar things. D can be a good language used with Python) But then probably PIL, scipy, etc have to be compiled again for such alternative official or semi-official Python distribution.
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