[issue4709] Mingw-w64 and python on windows x64

[Nathaniel Smith]

Nathaniel Smith added the comment:

> We are working on the Fortran issue in a few different ways, one of which is your work on MinGW compatibility so that gfortran can be used. But that isn't the only solution to this whole problem, and it's not even preferable for a lot of Python users, so expect other proposals to come out.

Hey Steve, I'm a bit surprised to be hearing this now given all our off-list discussions about these issues this year. Can you clarify what you're talking about here? Who is "we", what other solutions do you see, and why would they be preferable? (If the compatibility issues are solved, then AFAIK gfortran is basically perfect for 99% of uses; the only alternatives are proprietary compilers with much nastier -- F/OSS-incompatible -- license terms. Note that by contrast gfortran itself is GPLed, but with a specific exemption added to clarify that it is totally okay to use for compiling proprietary code.)

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