Re: Regarding resurrecting distutils support in PyGObject

[Fan Chun-wei <fanc999 yahoo com tw>]

Hello Dieter,

Thanks for the pointers, hopefully I could get some of these things 
going soon.  Might need to put more things in this thread as it churns 
along.
> Note that at the time I removed those files, mvsc support had already 
> been
> bit-rotting for years and the distutils machinery was only used to
> create win32 binaries with MinGW GCC afaik.
Hmm, that's interesting to hear... apparently I did manage to build 
PyGObject-2.28.6 and PYGTK-2.24.0 with MSVC 2008 as the code was C89 
compatible as far as I could recall... and managed to run the examples 
and even CherryTree in both win32 and x86-64 modes, but apparently a few 
minor hacks were needed, such as adding --msvc-syntax for pkg-config.

Since this is most probably only going to support MSVC, as you've 
mentioned-it may be so that I might do it in a way without pkg-config or 
force the use of the --msvc-syntax flag.

Thanks again, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

With blessings.