[Python-Dev] mingw support? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Aug 8 02:54:20 CEST 2010

Am 08.08.2010 02:12, schrieb Nick Coghlan:

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:55 AM, <linux at gabriel-striewe.de> wrote:

I know the question is why anybody should want to do so, but I do think that a project which depends on a non-free compiler is not free after all. It's a philosophical question

It's also a technical question. Supporting mingw on an ongoing basis is fairly difficult, for various reasons. There would be nothing inherently wrong with supporting mingw - it's just that none of the committers has found enough time and motivation to work on this (either using one of the contributed patches, or starting from scratch).

Regards, Martin

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