Irritating artifacts of the python variety

[Mercurio, Steven W-CTR (FAA)]

Marco,

This is fantastic news.  I can try now installing the latest (or at least later than 2.8) Ansible core, ansible link, etc. into Cygwin.   My end goal here is to either:

     Be able to have a windows install of VSCode leverage Ansible in Cygwin
or
     Eventually install Ansible AND VScode in Cygwin

so that a regular win desktop user can actually have a full working IDE that can do colored syntax highlighting, code completion, etc. just like a Linux desktop user with VScode can.

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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 9, 2026 5:20 AM
To: Jeremy Drake; Mercurio, Steven W-CTR (FAA)
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Irritating artifacts of the python variety

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On 23/08/2025 19:12, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2025, Mercurio, Steven W-CTR (FAA) via Cygwin wrote:
>
>> Also for Python 3.12 is there any way to get the Cryptography module
>> (some rust issue?) running so I can pip install the latest version of
>> Ansible and related tools (or at least something newer than 2.8)??
>
> Rust now builds for Cygwin.  I asked for a volunteer to package it on
> cygwin-apps, but haven't gotten any yet.  It is now packaged for MSYS2.
> The next stage is to get all the dependencies (crates) of
> python-cryptography compatible with Cygwin.  I believe python-maturin is
> being worked on over at MSYS2
> https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/pull/5586
>
> I've found trying to get a whole crate dependency tree up to snuff is a
> slow process, because if any crate specifies an old version it will link
> in multiple versions, and if the old version doesn't build, you're stuck
> until every crate updates its dependencies to the new version :(
>

Using a "test" version of Rust, built on Scallywag
I was able to build and upload several of the
python rust packages

python312-maturin                          1.11.3-1
python312-bcrypt                           5.0.0-1
python312-cryptography                     46.0.3-1
python312-rpds-py                          0.30.0-1

and the 3.9 counterpats.

Now we need to officialize the Rust package

Regards
Marco