mingw restriction overly harsh

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. presence of c:/mingw on Windows XP Pro
2. shedskin test.py
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
...    *ERROR* please rename or remove c:/mingw, as it conflicts with Shed Skin

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.0 or shedskin-read-only checkout.  Windows XP Pro

Please provide any additional information below.

User should not have to uninstall a perfectly good mingw compiler. Just
check that it's not currently on the path.

Patch against shedskin-read-only is attached. [Works for me]

Original issue reported on code.google.com by drobi...@gmail.com on 21 Oct 2009 at 7:45

Attachments:

• mingw_fix.patch

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thanks for the patch! I'm reasonably sure that I also saw problems even without 
mingw
in PATH.. and that's probably why the current check is the way it is. but I 
will give
your patch a try when I'm under windows again (usually right before a new 
release).

Original comment by mark.duf...@gmail.com on 25 Oct 2009 at 5:26

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Original comment by mark.duf...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 at 7:59

• Changed state: Accepted
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windows support will be dropped with 0.4, so I'm closing this issue..

Original comment by mark.duf...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2010 at 7:35

• Changed state: WontFix