[Python-Dev] MS VC 7 offer

[Tim Peters]

[Phil Thompson]
> ...
> If it's free, why pay any attention to the offer of a donation of a GUI
> frontend? (With a certain amount of irony, I don't attach any
> value to a GUI frontend to a compiler.)

The GUI isn't just the compiler, it's also the automated dependency
analysis, a make system, and a (very good) debugger.

> If it is free using some Microsoft definition of the word (eg.
> users have to upgrade to Win2K, or some other "read the small print"
> reason) then my vote is -1.

Guido asked who would want one.  You don't, but you don't get to vote that
nobody else does either.