On 26 Sep, 14:23, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Boddie wrote: > > P.S. Of course, the package maintainer problem manifests itself most > > prominently on Windows where you often see people asking for pre-built > > packages or installers. > > for the record, I'd love to see a group of volunteers doing stuff like > this for Windows. there are plenty of volunteers that cover all major > Linux/*BSD distributions (tons of thanks to everyone involved in this!), > but as far as I can remember, nobody has ever volunteered to do the same > for Windows.
Steve Holden had a certain amount of enthusiasm for this, I believe, and I note that there's some infrastructure for automatic snapshot builds of Python for Windows now. Perhaps there's some cross-over with the buildbot operators, too. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
