Srijit Kumar Bhadra wrote: > Is there any specific reason for not using MinGW to build the official > distribution of Python for Win32?
What could be the reasons to use MinGW? As for reasons not to do that: - there is no build process available to do that - people building extensions to Python must be able to do so with Microsoft C++, since some of these extensions are written using MFC. - developing Python itself in Visual Studio is quite convenient; in particular, the debugger works "better" than gdb. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
