Ilias Lazaridis wrote: > [please check your news-client. For some reason, the tag "[EVALUATION]" > was removed] > > I want to develope large scale applications, and for this I need an > stable official version of the python language, either binary or > produced directly out of official sources, completely with an > open-source tool-chain.
Where does that requirement come from? If you want to create large scale apps, the price for a msvc++ compiler shouldn't matter. And: Windows is a non-free platform at first. If you have to or want to develop on top of it, be prepared to pay. Its as simple as that. If you want something cheaper - you'll have to put some effort into it. Or use linux. Additionally, your point is moot because there is no need for python _core_ developers or the foundation to support every imaginable platform/compiler combination. Instead this can be done by companies - see activestate. So if you want it, step up and do it yourself so your work _becomes_ the official mingw port. Community gratitude would be guaranteed. -- Regards, Diez B. Roggisch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
