[Python-Dev] Compiler used to build Python for Windows

[Stefan Behnel]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> I think the best lesson here is Tcl. Because it uses stubs mechanism,
>> you don't need to depend on tclXX.dll, you don't deal with really
>> direct implementation details, you don't care about runtimes,
>> everything is much easier. Maybe it's possible (and not too late) for
>> Python to somehow embrace such mechanism?
> 
> It would be possible, but it would be a fairly large project. You would
> have to remove a lot of things from the Python header files, and that
> would cause significant breakage in existing extension modules.

Hmm, would it? I mean, you can currently build extensions with MinGW (at least
from what I heard, I never managed to do so as it would require cross
compiling for Windows), so why would you say you'd have to update the header
files?

Stefan