[Python-Dev] Re: Cygwin (original) (raw)

Kevin Jacobs jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:01:27 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:

If you want a free compiler on Windows, I'd recommend Cygwin (a Unixy development environment that includes GCC). There are some problems with Cygwin, but it's getting better all the time.

The major problem with Cygwin is that it is slow. The other problem is that you can't use it for commercial applications. I've gotten about 10 e-mails in reply to my offer to explore getting the Python CVS up and running with MingW. Since Python is already ported to native Win32 APIs, it seems like a viable approach that will not suffer from either of Cygwin's problems (though I have yet to try building a version with threads, or Python more recent than version 1.5.2). I'll keep the list posted on how it goes.

-Kevin

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