[EVALUATION] - E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

[Ilias Lazaridis]

Brian Beck wrote:
> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
>> this answer do not fit in most questions.
>> 
>> please review them again.
> 
> Actually, it does. Please review them again.
> 
>> My questions:
>> 
>> a) Why does the Python Foundation not provide additionally a binary
>>  version, compiled with MinGW or another open-source compiler?
> 
> Because no one has yet volunteered their time and effort to get the
> job done.
[...]

thank you for placing the answers in context.

>> I ask some questions and suggest some things.
>> 
>> Voluntarlily and without beeing paid.
> 
> What a martyr you are.

like all the open-source folks?

>> There are many commercial systems around python.
>> 
>> So please stop this volunteerism-stuff.
> 
> If the support you're looking for is beneficial to your commercial 
> application a.k.a. business, then why aren't you making it happen? 

I am in the process of doing so.

First I have to analyze the status-quo.

Which is not very simple with such a community.

> Obviously the existing commercial development teams are doing fine 
> without it, otherwise it would exist. Even then, a commercial
> developer providing their development work to enhance the standard
> Python distribution IS volunteering.

One of the most funny things within open-source is that switching:

first:
"we have powerfull solutions which beat this and that"

then:
"hey, this is just volunteer work"

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I was impressed by zope and plone.

But if those answers above were of official nature, I must seriously 
rethink if I can rely on _any_ system which is based on python, as the 
foundation and the community do not care about essential needs and 
requirements.

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