Python, VC++, and Mingw32

[Grant Griffin]

In article <39939451.84D22300 at san.rr.com>, Courageous says...
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>> Heck, it doesn't even come with makefiles that work with Microsoft's
>> compiler!  It ships with MS project files instead, as the Python developers
>> actually use the MS IDE to build Python.
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>And this was a wise move, IMO. While the free software compilers
>are indeed nice, the single most used cpp compiler under windows
>is, plainly, VC. It's not for the developers of python to evangelize
>anything but python, IMO.

Right.  And just as gcc is the "standard" compiler on Linux, VC is the closest
thing there is to a "standard" compiler on Windows (although many other good
compilers are available.)  The fact that the Python distrubition comes ready to
be built on VC (unlike most GNU software...) is actually a significant selling
point--not to mention its friendly license. ;-)

the-primary-idealogy-of-python-is-and-should-always-be-
   -"pragmatism"-ly y'rs,

=g2

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