[Distutils] why not link modules against msvcrt.dll istead of versioned msvcr*.dll? (mingw32)

[Václav Šmilauer]

> I didn't bother to report that particular issue since
> http://bugs.python.org/issue4709 (which has been reported nearly 4 years
> ago) isn't being fixed and I can't provide a testcase that fails...
>
> Other bugs that I hit when using mingw-w64:
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue11566
> http://bugs.python.org/issue12641
> http://bugs.python.org/issue11722
I reported http://bugs.python.org/issue16472 just for being complete.

I agree that reading bug comments by core devs is really frustrating, 
especially since distutils is frozen (which means for them that bugs 
don't get fixed) and python 2.7 is bugfix only (which means that they 
don't care about it).

I am installing python and have to patch the installation so that it is 
usable (-mno-cygwin, this bug a broken CC="ccache gcc"). That is a shame.

Cheers, Vaclav