[Python-Dev] using pyhon from the MSYS shell

[Terry Reedy]

""Martin v. Löwis"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message 
news:42CB12F8.9070406 at v.loewis.de...
> Aahz wrote:
>> Hrm.  I thought we told people to start with comp.lang.python for
>> porting questions, but I'm happy to be corrected.
>
> I'm unaware of such a policy, but I may have missed the relevant
> discussion. I could understand that questions of the kind "I tried
> to build Python on X, and the compiler gave me the error message
> Y" are for comp.lang.python - these messages are really the of the
> "I need help" kind.

I had the same impression as Aahz: questions about how to use the existing 
distribution should go to c.l.p.  Besides keeping pydev clear, someone once 
claimed (as I remember) that there are many people with experience building 
Python on various systems that read c.l.p but not pydev.  (Still true? 
don't know!)

On the otherhand, once that fails and someone thinks the codebase needs 
more #ifdefs, then it does become a pydev matter.  And you saw right off 
that MSYS support might need just that.

tjr