OpenAI to acquire Astral

[brettcannon]

@notatallshaw

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-build-standalone (currently maintained by Astral since uv relies on it) is a non-trivial amount of work, if it were 3 shell calls and that’s it then we’d be good.

Now… maybe CPython needs to get to a level where python-build-standalone basically doesn’t need to exist.

I agree, Astral identified it as key dependency and took over maintainership, they’ve been a good open source community participant and upstreamed many of the patches. I do think thie PSF/Steering Council/Core Developers should evaluate producing their own version, if at least for the bugfix of each release.

I’m working on it (and have been since October). It’s been on pause waiting for Astral to upstream their patches after I gave them all an initial review at the end of January. I have a PEP that I’m about to go public with, and once that’s done I’m pivoting back to working on prebuilt, relocatable builds for CPython that will come from python.org.