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

[Ilias Lazaridis]

Summarized Suggestions for the Python Team, PSF, Community):

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An automated-build-process-system should allow community-members to add 
their targets (e.g. MinGW) into an special "incubation section", which 
does not in any way affect the "main section" (which contains the 
official production targets, e.g. MSVC).

If an "incubation section" target proves over time as stable and 
supported (by community contributions), it is moved to the 
"official-auto-build".

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The python-team should
  * detect any efforts made within the community to support different 
build-targets
  * attract/engourage the authors/teams to include the patches/sources 
into the main build-system
  * attract/engourage the authors/teams to have open projects with an 
collaboration infrastructure.

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The python-community and the PSF should support the python-team to 
fulfill the above tasks, thus the python-teams effort is limited to 
provide the infrastructure (incubation-build-targets).

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Practical example:

Engourage the current pyMinGW project to become a open collaborative 
project:

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

   * as a first step, setup a pyMinGW mailinglist
     * intrested people can come together an communicate
   * as a second step, setup an SVN
     * intrested projects could get your patch via SVN
   * as a third step, find intrested contributors
     * which would help testing
     * which would help you with coding

The python-team setups a build-target, which the collaborative pyMinGW 
project tries to make valid.

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Now it's really time to close this thread.

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