[Distutils] Questions about distutils strategy

[Mark Hammond]

> But is there a way to allow the win32 extensions to build *without*
> needing Visual Studio MFC code?

Apart from Pythonwin, the win32 extensions should not require MFC at
all.

> I was hoping to compile the win32 extensions using ming and
> it worked - up
> to a point.  It needed source from MS Dev which I no longer have :(

What specifically were the problems?

[Not really distutils specific - just mail me with the response]

Mark.