MinGW and Python

[Robert Kern]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Srijit Kumar Bhadra wrote:
> 
>>Is there any specific reason for not using MinGW to build the official
>>distribution of Python for Win32?
> 
> What could be the reasons to use MinGW?
> 
> As for reasons not to do that:
> - there is no build process available to do that
> - people building extensions to Python must be able to do so with
>   Microsoft C++, since some of these extensions are written using MFC.
> - developing Python itself in Visual Studio is quite convenient; in
>   particular, the debugger works "better" than gdb.

- gcc does not optimize particularly well.

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