Is there some reason that recent Windows 3.6 releases don't included executable nor msi installers?

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Fri May 29 00:59:33 EDT 2020


Mike Dewhirst wrote at 2020-5-29 11:55 +1000:
>On 29/05/2020 10:51 am, Terry Reedy wrote:
> ...
>> Source only releases only block Windows/Mac users who choose not to
>> upgrade to a released installer and who cannot or choose not to compile.
>
>I am an example
>
>I installed all the Pythons on my Windows 10 dev machine (locked into
>Windows by having clients) but I'm also locked into Python 3.6.9 on my
>Ubuntu 18.04 production machines.

You are not locked into Python 3.6 on Ubuntu: it is quite easy
to compile Python on *nix (this includes Ubuntu 18.04) yourself
(I did so recently for Python 3.9[a5]).


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