- E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

[Fredrik Lundh]

"Pat" wrote:

> Having to tell users that they need to download, install, and configure
> all this additional compiler stuff is asking too much from my potential
> user base, since I'm also targeting novices and developers from other
> languages for whom C compiler stuff is going to be a barrier to entry.
>
> I hope that makes sense.  :-)

telling them to download and configure subversion just to be able to use
your stuff doesn't make much sense, no.

(not that subversion is hard to install, though, but it's a lot harder than just
running a bdist installer).

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