Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)

Sun Oct 1 03:57:02 EDT 2000

root at 127.0.0.1 (David) writes:

> Why is Visual C/C++ being used?  Why not Cygwin or Borland C/C++?  The
> latter two are both freely available; one of them is, IIRC, even open
> source.

Many people have attempted to build Python both with Borland C, and
cygwin. I believe they all had some kind of problems, and did give up
instead of solving them, and producing a Python distribution based on
these compilers.

Regards,
Martin