[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer (original) (raw)

Mark Hammond mhammond@skippinet.com.au
Wed, 7 May 2003 10:08:25 +1000

Just out of curiosity, what is it that MSVC adds to the picture over gcc anyway? Has anybody ever tried making a MinGW-only build of Python on Windows?

Now or then? . "Then" it was the simple matter of no gcc available for Windows. Now, it is a combination of no one driving it, and the simple fact that msvc will almost certainly generate better code and work with almost every library on Windows worth talking to. However, until the "no one driving it" part of solved, the latter, including the impact of mingw, wont be able to be measured.

Mark.