Newer Python? (was: Updated: python 3.8/3.9 packages)

[Teepean]

> On Saturday, 9 November 2024 at 04:53:37 pm GMT+2, Jon Turney via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 
> On 15/09/2024 12:08, Michael Cook via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Sat Dec 23 03:54:54 GMT 2023 Marco Atzeri wrote:
> >> Python 3.12 will be in the near future introduced and we will skip 3.10 and
> > 3.11.
> > 
> > Is there a place where I can find the latest status of this effort?
> > And how can I help?
>   I'm afraid it seems our python maintainer has no spare time to work on 
> this at the moment, so I don't think any progress has been made on this.
> 
> So, any assistance would be welcome.
> 
> As a first step:
> 
> * Investigating the hang problem(s?) reported with the python3 3.9.18 
> package and coming up with a solution would be very helpful.
> 
> * I suspect the same problem also exists in 3.10+. Confirming or denying 
> that hypothesis would also be useful.

I would suggest using MSYS2's Python 3.12 as a starting point for porting and investigating the hanging issue. MSYS2 has had a working Python 3.12 for a while now and as it is a fork of Cygwin I would assume would speed up porting.

https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/tree/master/python