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[John Arbash Meinel <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>     >  I especially want to drop
>     > MinGW.  I have the 32- and 64-bit MinGW compilers both working, but
>     > again it's extra work which does not seem to add value now that we
>     have
>     > python 2.6 which I gather is built using VS200x anyway.
> 
>     I'm sure you don't need to use MinGW if you have proper copy of VS2008.
> 
> That's really good to know.  Based on  "win32_build_setup.txt" I thought
> maybe there was some reason we *had* to use the MinGW ports with Python
> 2.5 and earlier. 
> 
> Thanks
> ~M

For python 2.4 and 2.5 you need either MingW or VS 2003, and it is far
easier to find VS 2003.

John
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