Using GNU C complier as the "default" windows complier

[Fredrik Lundh]

Mike Callahan <mcalla at home.com> wrote:
> This a question from a newbie but I was thinking...why doesn't the default
> Python code for windows use the GNU C complier for windows instead of the MS
> complier.

maybe because quite a few major Python contributors
happen to use MSVC?  it's a pretty good compiler, if you
happen to have it on your box...

(or maybe it's just that we're still hoping that the dist-
utils project will solve this once and for all...)

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