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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Aug 13 10:57:01 CEST 2010

The question is "who will support those folks?" I don't see any reason why you or Martin should support MSYS/mingw if you don't want to, but please don't put down the folks who ask for it. Just say "no, it's not worth it". Or maybe, "if you want to do the work, I might contribute some reviews." Or whatever.

The problem really is that when people ask for MingW support, they mean all kinds of things, and they "can't agree" among themselves what that is. Some want cross-compiling (i.e. compile using mingw on Linux). Some want autoconf for mingw with msys. Some want autoconf for mingw with cygwin. Some want to replace the build system entirely, and have the new build system support mingw (and claim that you otherwise can't get "good" mingw support).

It's not that I'm objecting mingw support per se, but have my issues with each individual patch proposed so far. As for reviewing: people proposing mingw patches somehow always arrive at very large patches. Reviewing them is very difficult also.

Regards, Martin

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