On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:09:45 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Lots of folks are happy with POSIX emulation layers on Windows, as > > they're OK with "basically works" rather than "works like any other > > native application". "Basically works" isn't sufficient for many > > Python-on-Windows use cases though, so the core ABI is a platform > > native one, rather than a POSIX emulation. > > > > This makes Python fit in more cleanly with other Windows applications, > > but makes it harder to write Python applications that span both POSIX > > and Windows. > > I don't really understanding why that's the case. Only the > building and packaging may be more difficult, and that assumes you're > familiar with mingw32. But mingw32, AFAIK, doesn't make the Windows > runtime magically POSIX-compatible (Cygwin does, to some extent). > mingw32 is a more compliant C compiler (VS2008 does not implement much from C89), and it does implement quite a few things not implemented in the C runtime, especially for math. But TBH, those are not compelling cases to build python itself on mingw, only to better support C extensions with mingw. David > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/cournape%40gmail.com >
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