Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Travis Oliphant schrieb:
>> Function pointers are "supported" with the void data-type and could be
>> more specifically supported if it were important. People typically
>> don't use the buffer protocol to send function-pointers around in a way
>> that the void descript
One reason for not switching to VC 8, which hasn't yet been explicitly
mentioned here, is that MinGW does not yet easily support linking to the
msvcr80 runtime library. Some C extension modules, for instance those in
SciPy, are primarily developed under Linux with GCC and hence are most
easily