"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would certainly be possible to distribute a gcc-compiled python. > However, what is the point in doing so? Cygwin already includes > a gcc-compiled Python, for Windows:
Interesting. > That is simply not true. Actually, you answered me then too. I misunderstood after reading http://sebsauvage.net/python/mingw.html. Is the information on that page not correct? Has it never been? > You can build the entire Python interpreter with Cygwin (but you > don't need to, because there is a precompiled version), and you can > build extensions for the python.org binary using MingW. Great, then I tend to agree that there is no reason for building it with mingw. -- Brian (remove the sport for mail) http://www.et.web.mek.dtu.dk/Staff/be/be.html http://www.rugbyklubben-speed.dk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list