[Python-Dev] What is the rationale behind source only releases? (original) (raw)

Alex Walters tritium-list at sdamon.com
Wed May 16 00:35:54 EDT 2018


In the spirit of learning why there is a fence across the road before I tear it down out of ignorance 1, I'd like to know the rationale behind source only releases of cpython. I have an opinion on their utility and perhaps an idea about changing them, but I'd like to know why they are done (as opposed to source+binary releases or no release at all) before I head over to python-ideas. Is this documented somewhere where my google-fu can't find it?



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