[python-win32] Questions regarding pypiwin32 and python 2.7

[Mark Hammond]

On 3/05/2018 6:39 am, Daniel Spisak wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I am trying to do some updates of some systems that utilize pypiwin32 
> and python 2.7 and I have some confusion about how to go about this. 
> First, a few things:
> 
> What is the difference between pypiwin32 and pywin32? Is it just 
> packaging in wheel format?

pypiwin32 is a "fork" of pywin32 which existed purely to have support 
for pypi. @xoviat helped roll the necessary changes into pywin32 itself, 
so pypiwin32 is effectively deprecated.

> Why does https://github.com/Googulator/pypiwin32/releases show 220 as 
> latest, but https://pypi.org/project/pypiwin32/#files shows 223?

As part of helping the migration, pywin32 builds with wheel support were 
also added to pypiwin32, but that's unlikely to continue happening.

> Is that not the official repo for pypiwin32?

It is, but pypiwin32 isn't really official. You should move to using 
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywin32 which is built from 
https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32 - although note that the wheels 
aren't directly on github - the pywin32 release process builds both 
executable installers and wheels with the former uploaded only to github 
and the latter uploaded only to pypi. If there was a good reason to put 
the wheels directly on github, I'd be happy to also do that for future 
releases.

HTH,

Mark