Christoph Gohlke and compiled packages

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 18:22, Mike Dewhirst <miked at dewhirst.com.au> wrote:
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> On 11/04/2023 5:21 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> 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.
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> I have to agree - but what you are really saying is that without Christoph, Python on Windows is
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> *really really really*
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> not viable.
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This may well be true, but before writing Windows off completely [1],
do check out some of the commercial distributions. It may be that it's
possible to do everything through Conda, for instance.

[1] Much as I would like to, this isn't a good idea