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

[Robert Kern]

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> David Fraser wrote:
> 
>> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Just to add to all the other answers:
>>
>> Don't just complain, submit patches and work at keeping them 
>> maintained. If this is done for a while it may be more of an argument 
>> for having them included
> 
> 
> I do not "just complain".
> 
> I've spend already hours with writing down the questionaire [which you 
> have successfully ignored].

Why don't you spend hours writing code and submitting working patches, 
instead? That's what I did years ago in the original effort to get mingw 
to compile Python extensions (one of the, woefully out-dated, web-pages 
you cite is mine. I have now edited it to clarify the situation so 
others do not come away from it as you did).

Just writing "questionnaires" *is* actually "just complaining."

The answer to most of your questions is, "Because no one has yet 
volunteered their time and effort to get the job done."

If this is important to you, you need to step up yourself and get it 
done and not expect other people to volunteer their unpaid time to 
satisfy your whims.

The open source Python community is driven by volunteerism, not a sense 
of entitlement. If this does not appeal to you, then perhaps the Python 
community is not the right one for you.

-- 
Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
  Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
   -- Richard Harter