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

[Ilias Lazaridis]

I'm a newcomer to python:

[EVALUATION] - E01: The Java Failure - May Python Helps?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/75f0c5c35374f553

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I've download (as suggested) the python 2.4 installer for windows.

Now I have problems to compile python extension that some packages 
depend on.

I use the MinGW open-source compiler.

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My questions:

a) Why does the Python Foundation not provide additionally a binary 
version, compiled with MinGW or another open-source compiler?

b) Why does the Python Foundation not ensure, that the python 
source-code is directly compilable with MinGW?

c) Why are the following efforts not _directly_ included in the python 
source code base?

http://jove.prohosting.com/iwave/ipython/pyMinGW.html

above link found in this thread:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/c9f0444c467de525

d) Is it really neccessary that I dive into such adventures, to be able 
to do the most natural thing like: "developing python extensions with 
MinGW"?

http://starship.python.net/crew/kernr/mingw32/Notes.html

e) Is there any official statement available regarding the msvcr71.dll 
and other MS licensing issues?

[see several threads "[Python-Dev] Is msvcr71.dll re-redistributable?"]

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-February/thread.html

f) Are there any official (Python Foundation) statements / rationales 
available, which explain why the MinGW compiler is unsupported, although 
parts of the community obviously like to use it?

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/dc3474e6c8053336

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I just want to understand.

Thankfull for any pointer to official documents / statements.

[google is _not_ a fried here. I like to have a stable development 
environment, which is supported by the official projects, thus it can 
pass quality-assurance without beeing afraid about every next release.]

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