Martin v. Löwis wrote: > 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.
- gcc does not optimize particularly well. -- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
