On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Antoine Pitrou
How do you know this isn't a problem, since you haven't *tested* with MSVC? Why on Earth would you want to test your PEP work with an unsupported Windows compiler and runtime, rather than with the officially supported compiler and runtime?
This discussion revolved around supporting MinGW in addition to MSVC. If it had been supported when I was doing that, I could have spun myself up a Windows build and tested it. Since it was (and so far still is) not, the hassle of hunting down a valid MSVC that could build for Win XP (as that's what my test box runs) was simply not worthwhile. My point is that there is no community fragmentation happening here; the only fragmentation is of binary distribution of extension modules, and there are several ways in which this needn't be a problem. ChrisA