[RFC] Adding Python as a possible language and it's usage

[Konovalov, Vadim]

Boris Kolpackov  wrote:
> From: Paul Koning
> > I wonder what will be the expected way to obtain a suitable version of 
> > Python if one is not available on the build machine? With awk I can 
> > build it from source pretty much anywhere. Is building newer versions 
> > of Python on older targets a similarly straightforward process 
> > (somehow I doubt it)? What about Windows?
> 
> It's the same sort of thing: untar
> the sources, configure, make, make install.  The code is larger than awk but
> the process is no more difficult.

Python build chain on windows does not support building with gcc

It was surprise for me to discover that, but this is how it is.

Very inconvenient.

> For Windows there are pre-built kits.  Ditto
> for a number of other popular operating systems.

This suits for simple cases or for "popular" ones, but greatly complicate things if it isn't