[python-win32] Moving pywin32 source from Sourceforge to Github

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Mon Oct 9 02:51:34 EDT 2017


Hi all,
  Sourceforge appears to be in its death throes, and with Python moving
to git/github I've decided to do the same. I hope that this might
encourage more contributors, particularly for better supporting
PyPi/pip, creating wheels etc.

Effective immediately, the new repo for pywin32 is
https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32.

At some stage I will cleanup the old HG repo (eg, possibly create a
final checkin which removes all files and adds a readme pointer to
github) and I'll move the existing relevant issues from sourceforge to
github - although I looked briefly at "importing" all the old issues I
don't think there's enough value in keeping some of the ancient issues
around in github - they will still be available in sourceforge.

I haven't yet decided what to do about distributing binaries, but it's
likely I'll also use github for that and move the old binaries from
sourceforge - but for now, all binaries are still available on sourceforge.

Note also that I'm about to leave on a 4 week vacation, so most of this
will not happen until I'm back, but I wanted to make this announcement
before I left so any potential contributors can get started.

Cheers,

Mark


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