Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: On 24.06.2013 00:00, Jeffrey Armstrong wrote: > > Jeffrey Armstrong added the comment: > >> ...the fact that this issue has been open for almost 2 years is quite >> ridiculous. > > I thought that I'd add a little statistic for everyone that might put this > bug into perspective. Since this bug was opened, the MinGW installer has > been downloaded about 32,000,000 (32 million) times per sf.net: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/stats/timeline?dates=2011-07-26+to+2013-06-23 > > If we take a naive approach, that's 32 million compiler installations that > can't build Python extensions without manually modifying distutils first. > > That statistic doesn't include the multitude of people installing other > builds of GCC for Windows (including MinGW-W64, a whole other unsupported > version of GCC, but that's a different bug).
Could someone perhaps produce a single final patch file which can be applied to Python 2.7 and 3.2+ ? It is not clear at the moment which of all those patches on the ticket should be applied. ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12641> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com