This might relevant. http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=153
Philippe Robert Kern wrote: > 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
