On 20/12/2022 9:28 am, Mats Wichmann wrote:
On 12/19/22 14:47, Eryk Sun wrote:Semi-OT: that's been a superb resource, but apparently it's no longer maintained - internet scuttlebutt suggests the project which let it exist has lost funding. The link above is a mirror, marked "Archived", and I can't see there's been any addition since July 1. (sadly... I happen to need an lxml build for experimenting with 3.12 alphas, and that's an absolute bear to build for WIndows - I've never cracked it)If you search a bit deeper, you'll find a site with unofficial Windows builds of many packages, including pygame for Python 3.11: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pygame
That is dreadful news! Windows as a dev platform is dead without it. That is serious.
Back on topic - Installation hellI use Windows for historic reasons related to needing to support 99% of my customers/dependents who also use it. I'm the only one who also uses Linux - but only non-GUI Linux.
Windows works for me as a dev platform because there are so many talented Python people out there who make it work. It would be impossible otherwise. I would be forced to to learn two GUIs if I had to develop on Linux.
I'm here to tell you that dev and production on different OSs works without a hitch! For me.
Whoever wrote the installation docs for Windows did a great job. All the bases and options are covered. Absolutely no-one could complain that any pertinent detail has been omitted.
Some marketing research is indicated. The OP who started this thread could define themself in exquisite detail so that installation infrastructure including documentation can be developed to suit that market exemplar.
I think there are several separate markets. Eg., for someone like me ... locked into Windows (but not Microsoft otherwise) and needing to target Linux web servers. That would allow a branching of the installation docs to home in, say, on virtual envs and multiple Python installations in the root of drive C: (well away from "Program files") and so on.
If the OP says they are an educated computer scientist they could become a hero and write up a tightly focused set of docs (extracted from the comprehensive canonical docs) which assume their particular "market", for want of a better term.
The PSF might recognise the effort and be able to promote such a high interest from Windows Python devs into funding for Chris Gohlke.
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