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Author amaury.forgeotdarc
Recipients BreamoreBoy, LRN, WhiteTiger, amaury.forgeotdarc, davidfraser, eric.araujo, giampaolo.rodola, lkcl, rpetrov, rschoon.old, tarek, zooko
Date 2010-11-13.16:56:53
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Message-id <1289667415.01.0.560899036562.issue3871@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> this is, after all, a new platform! it starts off with 
> "sys.platform == 'mingw32'"

I disagree; programs compiled with mingw32 run on Windows, and use the MSVC runtime. It's the same platform as the current win32 build.
It's even possible to use mingw32 to compile extensions for the VS9.0 based python.exe.
A different compiler does not make a new platform.
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Date User Action Args
2010-11-13 16:56:55amaury.forgeotdarcsetrecipients: + amaury.forgeotdarc, lkcl, zooko, davidfraser, giampaolo.rodola, tarek, eric.araujo, rpetrov, rschoon.old, WhiteTiger, BreamoreBoy, LRN
2010-11-13 16:56:55amaury.forgeotdarcsetmessageid: <1289667415.01.0.560899036562.issue3871@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-11-13 16:56:53amaury.forgeotdarclinkissue3871 messages
2010-11-13 16:56:53amaury.forgeotdarccreate