setuptools without unexpected downloads

[Steve Holden]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Paul Boddie wrote:
> 
>> P.S. Of course, the package maintainer problem manifests itself most
>> prominently on Windows where you often see people asking for pre-built
>> packages or installers.
> 
> for the record, I'd love to see a group of volunteers doing stuff like 
> this for Windows.  there are plenty of volunteers that cover all major 
> Linux/*BSD distributions (tons of thanks to everyone involved in this!), 
> but as far as I can remember, nobody has ever volunteered to do the same 
> for Windows.
> 
I'd like to see something like this happen, too, and if a group of 
volunteers emerges I'll do what I can through the PSF to provide 
resources. Activities that benefit the whole community (or a large part 
of it) are, IMHO, well worth supporting.

regards
  Steve
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