REPOST: Re: Fate of win32all?

[DeepBleu]

One word that I feel like sharing here:
Mark Hammond is a hero of mine.  Have I owned my own company I would hire
him for lots of money :)
Wishing Mark all the best in his professiol endeavours.
DeepBleu

"stalin" <woodsplitter at rocketmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've used win32all occasionally--always in noncommercial settings--and
> have found it helpful.  I'd like to thank Mr. Hammond for developing
> the packages and ActiveState for supporting their recent maintenance
> by employing Hammond.
>
> Mr. Hammond had personally developed the win32 packages to
> considerable maturity before he became involved with ActiveState.  His
> employment by ActiveState appears to have come to an untimely end just
> recently (
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-December/019038.html
> ).  I don't mean to be insensitive--I'm sure Hammond has a lot on his
> mind right now--but I wonder about the fate of win32all.  What role
> does ActiveState now play in licensing the package?  Has the original
> author lost a degree of his control over it to his former employer?
>
> My suspicion is rooted in the apparent lack of a binary distribution
> of win32all for Python 2.2 independent of ActiveState's ActivePython
> product.  Queries about a binary distribution of win32all for Python
> 2.2 have gone unanswered for months:
>
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=win32all+2.2&hl=en&group=comp.lang.python.
*&rnum=1&selm=9ralkq%24rdc%241%40ins22.netins.net
>
> ActiveState's win32all page does not list a binary download for Python
> 2.2,:
>
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePython/Extensions/Win32all
>
> although they have developed an ActivePython 2.2 alpha that of course
> *incorporates* win32all:
> http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePython
>
> Hammond's personal Starship page makes no mention of a win32all binary
> for Python 2.2:
> http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/Downloads.html
>
> I wrote this message simply because I'd like to know who holds the
> reins of win32all, and what their plans for it are.  I am *not* an
> anti-ActiveState malcontent looking to spread conspiracy theories,
> though I must say that recent developments call the future of the
> company into question in my mind.

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