Martin v. Löwis:
> The problem (for me, atleast) is that VC is so much more convenient to
> work with.
In my experience Visual C++ has always produced faster, more
compact code than Mingw. While this may not be true with current
releases, I'd want to ensure that the normal Python download for
Tim Delaney wrote:
> With Microsoft changing the CRT all the time, I think I'd much prefer seeing
> effort going towards MinGW becoming the official Windows build platform.
> There was a considerable amount of angst with the 2.4 release that can be
> blamed solely on the CRT change (and hence di
"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> Using VS2005 for official builds would only be an option with the
> next major release (2.5), and I personally don't see that happening:
> AFAICT, it is not that much of a change as VS2003 was (i.e. for
> Python, nothing is gained AFAICT); also, I'm getting the impressio
