Re: [Mingw-users] Fixing mingw support in Python's distutils

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2013-05-20 14:54Z, Paul Moore wrote:
[...]
> The OP is trying to gather evidence that it is *not possible* for people to
> be relying on the existing broken behaviour, because it cannot produce
> viable executables (the only versions of gcc that could exist anywhere
> which accept -mno-cygwin, do not support building with the version of
> MSVCRT that Python needs). If he can *prove* that there are no users who
> will be adversely impacted by the change, it might be possible to get the
> change moving at last.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00802.html
|  gcc-3 -mno-cygwin still works just as well (or badly!) as it ever has done,
| and will be retained for ever.

Some people may still be using Cygwin gcc version 3, which needs
'-mno-cygwin'. Those are the only people who might be affected.