Repo to organize working towards prebuilt binaries

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For those that didn’t see my talk at the core dev sprints on the topic, my next big project is getting prebuilt binaries on to python.org for all the tier 1 platforms. I got GitHub - python/prebuilt-cpython: Repository for discussing/planning prebuilt binaries of CPython created so we have a place to coordinate work as there’s enough prior art from other folks and I’m going to need help. :sweat_smile:

And because Ned said to, I’m explicitly mentioning the folks who do releases: @nad , @steve.dower (although he already produces prebuilt binaries), @hugovk (in case we get this done for 3.15), @savannahostrowski (because I better get this done by 3.17), and @ambv (because Python 3.15 alpha 1 said I should).

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I didn’t see your talk and the linked article doesn’t clarify much, can you summarize what the project is about?

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The first link contains the slides that Brett presented at core dev sprint. The idea is to make prebuilt binaries available to the community as a convenient alternative to building and installing Python from source code.

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I guess the slides aren’t rendering correctly for me? or is that really it?

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That’s it. If you look at the content between the dark lines, that is the individual pages.

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Carol’s right about the rendering. You can also read the README on the repo I linked to for an idea of what the project is about.

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thanks! I was very confused since I thought maybe the website was broken, I’ll be reaching out!