Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:

Let’s try again.  The current situation is that building with mingw32 is not 
supported.  Adding support for mingw32 is by definition a new feature.  You 
seem to agree on that: “a NEW compiler and linker type - an ADDITIONAL compiler 
and linker type”.

Second, distutils is frozen.  That’s the policy decided by Tarek, who’s spent 
literal months working on PEPs to move the situation forward.  It’s just not 
possible to fix things in distutils, so it’s frozen and new work happens in 
distutils2, at the suggestion of Python creator Guido van Rossum.  Please 
accept the feature freeze.

In conclusion, such pervasive changes will not happen in distutils.

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assignee:  -> tarek
components: +Distutils2
versions: +3rd party, Python 3.3 -Python 3.2

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