[EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

[jfj]

Michael Hoffman wrote:

> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:

>> b) Why does the Python Foundation not ensure, that the python 
>> source-code is directly compilable with MinGW?
> 
> 
> Why should they? It already runs on Windows with a freely available
> compiler.

The point is that the freely available compiler wouldn't be free if
it wasn't for gcc.  Just for that I _believe_ python, being open source,
should support mingw as the default.  But I *don't care* and I don't 
mind, really ;)


jfj