On 11/04/2023 5:21 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 14:20, Mike Dewhirst<mi...@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:It seems Christoph Gohlke has been cut adrift and his extremely valuable web page ...https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ ... turned into an archive getting staler by the day. What does the Python Software Foundation and the community think about this?My personal view? Windows is *really really really* hard to support, and ONE PERSON did a stellar job of supporting the platform for an incredibly long job.
I have to agree - but what you are really saying is that without Christoph, Python on Windows is
*really really really* not viable. Mike
I don't know if he'll ever read this, but if he does, thank you Christoph for your amazing contribution to the community. The fact that we have a problem now is a testament to the length of time that we *didn't* have a problem, thanks to him. ChrisA
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