David Abrahams schrieb:
At the moment I have too weak a server to provide those files, but that will change very soon. All that said, the Python and ActiveState teams need to be aware of each and every Python release and go through a standard release procedure anyway, whereas -- except for this problem -- I would not. I'm willing to try to add it if that's what works, and of course it's easy for me to say, but I think it adds a lot more overhead for me than it would for the other two groups.
It's a significant amount of work, either way. It will be larger for you when you do it the first time; after that, it will be the same amount of work for you that it would be for me. It will be easier for you than for me as you won't be acting under time pressure (whereas additional actions from me will delay the entire Python release, which, due to timezones, already significantly suffers from the need to create Windows binaries). I'm not sure whether you are requesting these for yourself or for somebody else. If for somebody else, that somebody else should seriously consider building Python himself, and publishing the result. Regards, Martin