i'm really sorry, eric, but the decision to ban me from interacting with python developers for 18 months+ has left me with zero working knowledge of many of these complex issues which i was heavily and actively involved in at the time, and could have answered immediately.

the opportunity to interact with me and to move the mingw32 port forward was "at the time", not 18+ months later.

i've since *removed* the highly complex development environment which was tricky as hell to set up (mingw32 cross compiler, mingw32 native compiler, python, native python, wine, MSYS under wine, python-win32 under wine) because it was declared that the work being carried out was worthless.

i'll have to leave it to roumen to answer this one.

l.