I'm several weeks late to this discussion, but I'm glad to see that it
happened. I'm not a Python developer, and barely a user, but I have several
years of daily experience compiling complicated scientific software cross-
platform, particularly with MinGW-w64 for Windows. The Python community,
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Thanks all for the responses. Clearly this is a subject about which
people feel strongly, so that's good at least. David Murray's guidance
in particular points to the most likely path to get improvements to
really happen.
Steve Dower:
> Building CPython for Windows is not something that needs solv
If this includes (or would likely include) a significant portion of the
Scientific Computing community, I would think that would be a compelling
use case.
I can't speak for any of the scientific computing community besides myself,
but my thoughts: much of the development, as you know, happens on
Not really, to be honest. I still don't understand why anyone not
directly involved in CPython development would need to build their own
Python executable on Windows. Can you explain a single specific
situation where installing and using the python.org executable is not
possible
I want, and in m
Stephen J. Turnbull:
Python is open source. Nobody is objecting to "somebody else" doing
this.[1] The problem here is simply that some "somebody elses" are
trying to throw future work over the wall into python-dev space.
If that's how it's seen at this point, then it sounds like the logical
c
Stephen J. Turnbull:
Sure -- as long as it works for them, though, such potential
contributors don't necessarily care if it works for anybody else. My
experience (in other projects) is that allowing that level of
commitment to be sufficient for inclusion in the maintained code base
frequently re
Stephen J. Turnbull:
the pain of using Windows is what drives me away from all of them.
Enough that you are not able to make the software you write usable on
Windows? I see your point and agree with it - I don't even like Windows
much at all, but supporting it is important for plenty of reasons
