Am 08.08.2010 02:12, schrieb Nick Coghlan: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:55 AM, <li...@gabriel-striewe.de> wrote: >> I know the question is why anybody should want to do so, but I do >> think that a project which depends on a non-free compiler is not free >> after all. > > It's a philosophical question
It's also a technical question. Supporting mingw on an ongoing basis is fairly difficult, for various reasons. There would be nothing inherently wrong with supporting mingw - it's just that none of the committers has found enough time and motivation to work on this (either using one of the contributed patches, or starting from scratch). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
