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Unfortunately, the patch is unacceptable in its current
form. Some of the changes seem essential to make Python work
with Mingw, others seem merely aesthetical (i.e. those that
make warnings go away).

Some of the changes that make warnings go away look wrong:
the code is right as it stands, and if you get a warning
with MingW, it's either that the compiler is wrong, or some
other part of the setup is broken.

Would you be willing to rework the patch to only include the
fragments that are absolutely necessary to make it compile
and work correctly? Also, it would be much more useful if
you could forward-port the patch to the 2.5 subversion trunk.

Among the things I consider faulty are:
- inclusion of wincrypt.h
- addition of a parenthesis around the cFileName[1/2] block
- explicit conversion of arguments to const char**