[python-win32] Getting tired with py2exe

[David Fraser]

Steve Holden wrote:

>fred dixon wrote:
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>>Garth Johnson <growlf <at> biocede.com> writes:
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>>>Steve Holden wrote:
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>>>>Ignoring all the philosophical questions I'd like to thank you for all 
>>>>your hard work on py2exe over the years, which has benefited the Windows 
>>>>Python community immeasurably.
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>>>>regards
>>>>Steve
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>>>here here!  I have just begun my trek into Python and am already relying 
>>>upon Py2Exe for my projects.  Thank you for an effective, well designed 
>>>tool that is easy to use.  It was one of the final deciding factors in 
>>>our company's choice of languages.  (not the least of which was the ease 
>>>of which our dev team took to Python after pretzling with perl).  I do 
>>>hope you change your mind.
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>>>Garth
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>>Garth pretty much summed up my feelings as well. 
>>I never would have started to learn python with out the option of py2exe,
>> now i love it and would HATE to have to go back to some lesser language. IMHO.
>>so thank you as well
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>Well, it's all very well singing Thomas' praises, but what's really 
>needed here is someone who'll maintain the code base! I would urge the 
>hordes of py2exe users to consider if they couldn't give up a little 
>time to keep the software in shape now Thomas no longer has the time.
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>regards
>  Steve
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I've been watching similar things in other projects ...

The nice thing about open source is that you don't have to have somebody 
taking over straight away ...
I suspect that what will happen is somebody will want to do something 
new with the code some time, or fix a number of bugs, and at that point 
they will volunteer...

David