Re: Python recompile

On 11/03/2025 15:24, bart wrote:

 To build open source projects, I'm happy to use an existing C compiler. I'm NOT happy about bending over backwards to use CYGWIN, MSYS2 or WSL because the developers insist on forcing their Linux dependencies down my throat.
  Developers can do what they like. But they shouldn't inflict their choices on other people, especially those using other OSes.
 

I have not paid a lot of attention to this thread.  But I am curious here - who do you think is /forcing/ you to compile their code?  Why do you think it is appropriate for /you/ to demand that people writing open source projects (often as voluntary work) should go out of their way to make /your/ life easier?  Why are you trying to inflict /your/ choices on them?
It is very strange to me that you feel open source developers should bow to your preferences and famously restricted build requirements.
If someone wants to write software that only works on Windows, that's their choice.  If I want to use it on Linux, I may have to re-write parts of it, or use Wine, or Mono, or perhaps be unable to use it at all.  That's fair enough.  The same applies if I - or anyone else - want to use software written for Linux on Windows.  It doesn't matter if making the code cross-platform or independent of a particular library, header or tool would have been a big job or a small job.  I have no right to complain that an open source project is hard for me to build on my chosen system - and neither do you.