[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:06 AM 5/7/03 +1000, Mark Hammond wrote:
>Another thing to consider is the "make" environment.  If we don't use
>DevStudio, then presumably our existing project files will become useless.
>Not a huge problem, but a real one.  MSVC exported makefiles are not
>designed to be maintained.  I'm having good success with autoconf and Python
>on other projects, but that would raise the barrier to including cygwin in
>your build environment.
>
>Then-just-one-step-from-gcc <wink> ly,

Just out of curiosity, what is it that MSVC adds to the picture over gcc 
anyway?  Has anybody ever tried making a MinGW-only build of Python on Windows?