[Python-Dev] mingw support?

[linux at gabriel-striewe.de]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:55:29PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 8/9/2010 2:47 PM, Sturla Molden wrote:
> >> Terry Reedy:
> >
> >>     MingW has become less attractive in recent years by the difficulty
> >> in downloading and installing a current version and finding out how to
> >> do so. Some projects have moved on to the TDM packaging of MingW.
> >>
> >> http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/
> 
> Someone else deserves credit for writing that and giving that link ;-)

Yes, that was a great link, thanks. It works fine for me.

The reason I was bringing up this topic again was that I think the gnu
autotools have been made for exactly this purpose, to port software to
different platforms, and it might in the long run be easier to have a
working mingw plus autotools platform to develop python (as well as
other software) on.

Besides, one day it would be nice even on windows to have a kind of
GNU/Windows system where you could just type win-emerge gtk or
win-emerge python or whatever. 

Gabriel