Patch for recent Python versions

Sun Apr 27 18:37:58 GMT 2025

On 2025年04月27日 03:49, Lee via Cygwin wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 4:52 AM Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin
> <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 04:20:23 AM EDT, Lee via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Apr 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM Keith Thompson wrote:
>>>>>>>> I see that Cygwin only supports Python 3.9.16 (or 3.9.18 as a test
>>>> version), which is a couple of years old.
>>>>>> $ python3 --version
>>> Python 3.12.9
>>>> That's either a test version or it's non-Cygwin version.
>>>> @ python3 from setup.ini, curr, prev, and test versions:
>> install: x86_64/release/python3/python3-3.9.16-1.tar.xz
>> install: x86_64/release/python3/python3-3.9.10-1.tar.xz
>> install: x86_64/release/python3/python3-3.9.18-1.tar.xz
>>>> @ python312 from setup.ini -- all versions are labeled "test"
>> The observation was that "Cygwin only supports Python 3.9.16 (or
> 3.9.18 as a test version)" - which, as you point out, is false.
> Python 3.12 is available from setup.exe

Cygwin provides source packages python3{,6,7,8,9,12} and binary releases:
3.6.{13-{1,2},15-1}
3.7.{10-{1,2},12-1}
3.8.{10,12,16}-1
3.9.{10,16,18}-1
3.12.{8-2,9-1}
as of a couple of hours ago.
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