Ilias Lazaridis wrote:this answer do not fit in most questions.
please review them again.
Actually, it does. Please review them again.
My questions:
a) Why does the Python Foundation not provide additionally a binary version, compiled with MinGW or another open-source compiler?
Because no one has yet volunteered their time and effort to get the job done.
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thank you for placing the answers in context.
I ask some questions and suggest some things.
Voluntarlily and without beeing paid.
What a martyr you are.
like all the open-source folks?
There are many commercial systems around python.
So please stop this volunteerism-stuff.
If the support you're looking for is beneficial to your commercial application a.k.a. business, then why aren't you making it happen?
I am in the process of doing so.
First I have to analyze the status-quo.
Which is not very simple with such a community.
Obviously the existing commercial development teams are doing fine without it, otherwise it would exist. Even then, a commercial
developer providing their development work to enhance the standard
Python distribution IS volunteering.
One of the most funny things within open-source is that switching:
first: "we have powerfull solutions which beat this and that"
then: "hey, this is just volunteer work"
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I was impressed by zope and plone.
But if those answers above were of official nature, I must seriously rethink if I can rely on _any_ system which is based on python, as the foundation and the community do not care about essential needs and requirements.
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