alexey borzenkov pnicgegmailcom thu mar 6 2008 352 steve holden wrote mingw tends rather stable though without occasional library compatibility issue freely available extensions built using mingw pywin32 comes mind immediately almost easily easily since need patch libmoldname update spec file change runtime used mingw visual studio besides would require specediting build machines well user machines otherwise get extensions depend msvcrtdll msvcrxxdll complication runtime compatibility could potential problem maybe with_pymalloc maybe fixes official mingw port much id like one seem feasible future python already far needle visual studio biggest problem would also extensions setuppy many extensions ive seen hardwire distutilsmsvccompiler one way another official python would shift mingw would suddenly break think best lesson tcl uses stubs mechanism dont need depend tclxxdll dont deal really direct implementation details dont care runtimes everything much easier maybe possible late python somehow embrace mechanism _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 071454 0300 pythondev compiler used build python windows