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

[Joe Francia]

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> Joe Francia wrote:
> 
>> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> MinGW compatibility is not [only] my need.
>>>
>>> It is an community need [at least partially]
>>
>>
>> You keep using that word "community". I do not think it means what you 
>> think it means.
> 
> 
> The community is everyone around python (including me at this moment).
> 
> We could call i userbase, too, but one needs not to be a actual user to 
> be a community member.
> 

Well, I'm glad you cleared that up (even though you clearly missed the 
"Princess Bride" reference).  As a member *and* user in the Python 
community, I hereby declare MinGW as unnecessary to the successful 
continuation of Python.  When I need to compile extensions on win32, 
VS.NET works splendidly.  (And gcc covers my FreeBSD & Linux extension 
compiling needs - I have no unusual demands or expectations that the 
Python "community" will support, say, the Intel C compiler on those 
platforms).

 > what do you think about?

Oh, different things at different times, but it's usually not about 
MinGW support for Python.

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