Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)

[Monty Taylor]

Max Møller Rasmussen wrote:

> From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim_one at email.msn.com]
>
> >We Windows weenies are *all* major leeches off Mark Hammond's tireless
> >multi-year Python Windows work, and he had no luck *begging* for help much
> >of that time.

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>
> VC does not come installed on every windows machine you know.
>

Which is a fairly appropriate summary as to why Open Source projects do tend to
wither a bit on Windows. It's not quite so much fun to contribute if you have
to pay for the priviledge.