- E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

[Ilias Lazaridis]

Michael Hoffman wrote:
> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> 
>> "The Python Foundation could create an official sub-project to create 
>> an automated build target based on the MinGW toolchain. I am sure that 
>> many community members would be more than happy to contribute."
> 
> An "official sub-project" for something like this is not necessary. 

It is.

I hope the officials from the Python Foundation detect that:

  * source code should be _directly_ compilable under major compilers.
  * community efforts for such a important functionality should be
    channelized and organized

> Identify
> what needs to be done and create a patch, and it will be accepted if it is
> a good patch.

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 >> c) Why are the following efforts not _directly_ included in the
 >> python source code base?
 >>
 >> http://jove.prohosting.com/iwave/ipython/pyMinGW.html
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