[Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 08:53:29 +1100
Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > And how do you know that it would have worked with MSVC if you only use
> > MinGW?
> > If you want to ensure compatibility with MSVC, you must build with MSVC.
> > There's no working around that.
> 
> Precisely. If you build with MinGW, you can't ensure compatibility
> with MSVC. Reread my post: I gave two examples of situations where
> that isn't a problem.

How do you know this isn't a problem, since you haven't *tested* with
MSVC?
Why on Earth would you want to test your PEP work with an unsupported
Windows compiler and runtime, rather than with the officially supported
compiler and runtime?

Regards

Antoine.