[issue16454] Mostly for discussion: _winapi as builtin for bootstrapping distutils.

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[issue16454] Mostly for discussion: _winapi as builtin for bootstrapping distutils.

Ray Donnelly added the comment: I should have checked the situation better, it is indeed towards the back end of a series of patches to enable MinGW compilation, so the issue is irrelevant without the preceding patches. Sorry for the noise. -- resolution: -> invalid

[issue16454] Mostly for discussion: _winapi as builtin for bootstrapping distutils.

Richard Oudkerk added the comment: The patch does not apply correctly against vanilla Python 3.3. I would guess that you are using a version of Python which has been patched to add mingw support. Where did you get it from? (In vanilla Python 3.3, setup.py does not contain any mention of _win

[issue16454] Mostly for discussion: _winapi as builtin for bootstrapping distutils.

New submission from Ray Donnelly: I'm submitting this patch as it was suggested I do so by Antoine Pitrou on #python-dev. As such, it's more a point of discussion than a patch I'm trying to get merged (for one thing, my build is a MinGW GCC compiled and I've not considered the MSVC Windows bui