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A new home for Python-build-standalone
Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.
TL;DR: On 2024-12-17, we'll be taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for building and installing portable Python distributions. Specifically, python-build-standalone solves these problems by (1) statically linking Python against its dependencies; and (2) patching the CPython build system to operate on relative, rather than absolute paths. Finally, I want to take a moment to thank Gregory for all the work that he's put into python-build-standalone — for onboarding us onto the project, and for entrusting Astral with its development going forward.
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