MinGW and Python

["Martin v. Löwis"]

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.

Regards,
Martin