OT: What's up with the starship?

[rurpy at yahoo.com]

rurpy at yahoo.com wrote:
> micahel at gmail.com wrote:
> > r... at yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > > I don't think that would help in the case of Pywin32 since the
> > > Sourceforge dates for build 210 are 9/22.
> > > I emailed Mark Hammond but have not heard anything back yet.
> >
> > In the case of pywin32, are you at all sure that you actually
> > downloaded anything from starship.python.net?  AFAICT all the files are
> > now hosted on sf, and there doesn't seem to be any vaguely new files in
> > the backup of /home/www.
>
> The files I downloaded were from sourceforge.  I don't know if
> starship.python.net hosts the source files or plays any role in
> building the disrtribution package.  It may be that is all done
> elsewhere.  But given starship.python.net's historical association
> with Pywin32, I am not going to just assume that.

In email, Mark Hammond said that that the Pywin32 code is not
hosted at starship.python.net, nor are the distributions built there.
(I assume this does not apply to the very old win32all stuff that
*is* at python.net but I doubt anyone uses those anymore.)