Christoph Gohlke and compiled packages

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 11/04/2023 5:21 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 14:20, Mike Dewhirst<miked at 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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