Fredrik Lundh 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. > I'd like to see something like this happen, too, and if a group of volunteers emerges I'll do what I can through the PSF to provide resources. Activities that benefit the whole community (or a large part of it) are, IMHO, well worth supporting.
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