[Commented On] D8478: automation: support building Windows wheels for Python 3.7 and 3.8

[indygreg (Gregory Szorc)]

indygreg added a comment.


  In D8478#126778 <https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8478#126778>, @martinvonz wrote:
  
  > Why do we even give the choice between 3.7 and 3.8? Just because it was easy to do so anyway? Since the Python runtime is embedded, there's very little reason to try to match a system Python or something, right? To be clear, I don't have an issue with allowing it; I was just surprised by it and wanted to make sure I understand it correctly.
  
  For the installers, the runtime is embedded. The wheels are standalone, pre-compiled Python packages and installed via `pip`. The ABI is dependent on the OS, machine architecture, and Python version.
  
  Personally, I would prefer that people install Mercurial via the installers so we can control the runtime. But some people (e.g. Mozilla and Python programmers) do install Mercurial via `pip`.

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