On 8/7/2010 3:55 PM, linux at gabriel-striewe.de wrote: > Dear list, > > I was wondering whether there would ever be support for python to be > build by the mingw compiler suite. I found a few patches in the > internet but there were disagreeing comments on whether they are > functional or not. > > So I would like to ask the list whether there are any technical > reasons that this is so. The sociological problem is that currently not enough advocates of using a free-as-in-thought compiler both can and will provide enough free-as-in-beer volunteer time to deal with the sociological and technical problems. That could change someday. I suspect that the persons who first ported Python to MSDOS simply used what they were used to using, perhaps in their paid job. And I am sure that is still true of at least some of the people doing Windows support today. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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