Pandas is outstanding, I love it. This may not be the place for this, but... I just built pandas 0.8.0 and it would not build with MinGW 0.5. The problem is -

Pandas is outstanding, I love it. This may not be the place for this, but... I just built pandas 0.8.0 and it would not build with MinGW 0.5. The problem is -mno-cygwin is no longer recognized by MinGW's gcc. My solution was to edit distutils/cygwincompiler.py and remove references to -mno-cygwin. THIS IS NOT PANDAS'S FAULT! I just thought I'd point it out in case other people run into the same problem.