Community split between official and fastest build

[konstin]

One of the goals of python-build-standalone is to be the fastest build (which it seems to be in preliminary benchmarks, TBD). This is a stated non-goal for prebuilt-cpython, which will be hosted on python.org. I'm worried this will create a conflict for tools that manage python between getting the fastest build and getting an official build, which may on top have slightly different releases cadences and platform and architecture support.

This has to do with the signal value of python.org: Many users consider python.org an official, preferable source, while it's not clear that python-build-standalone is similarly pristine, and not an astral fork of CPython.

[brettcannon]

A non-goal doesn't mean someone can't try to make the builds fast. The key reason it's a non-goal here is it isn't a technical obstacle to getting prebuilt binaries working. It's also something that can be done later.

I.e. I'm much more worried about getting patches from PBS upstreamed than getting BOLT working right now. 😉