René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Release 2025-03 follow-up","articleBody":"release date: end june 2025\n\nwanted:\n- [x] Spyder-6 defect resolved (needed package traitlets-5.14.3)\n- [x] Drag \u0026 Drop re-implemented on Spyder, IDLE, wppm  (keeping anti-virus community happy)\n- [x] Python-3.13.5 (REPL bug fix), and a last Python-3.12 cycle\n- [x] the Weelhouse structure: (PEP-0751 evolution)\n    - a \"dot\" version with a ./Wheelhouse/included.wheels  directory of original pypi wheels (with same hash-256), \n    - a lockfile to install from the provided Wheelhouse, or wppm -i them package per package\n- simplify infrastructure and maintainance further:\n  - [x] ENDING: the changelog works also on WheelHouse, and in shipped WinPython\n  - [x] NAVIGATING: piptree can navigate in a Wheelhouse directory\n  - [x] DOS: remove 9 DOS scripts, remains 18\n\nExplore:\n- speed:\n    - faster cpython-3.14 vs 3.13: 3%\n    - JIT is in python-3.14.0b2: 0% \n    - tail calling : 15%\n    - free-threading: 2.5x on 4 threads, interesting pycon 2025 talk [Building a NoGIL Load Balancer in 30 minutes - Alvaro Duran](https://youtu.be/AYSlsCz8gKM)\n    - multi-interpreter standard library will be in 3.14\n    - RUST invasion: ruff, uv, ty or meta's [pyrefly](https://youtu.be/ZTSZ1OCUaeQ)\n- more IA use to improve and simplify the code, and learn-by-doing to prompt IA for less defects\n- the 1 bit AI model from ms ...\n- PEP 773 – A Python Installation Manager for Windows \n- Wheel-Next initiative: https://wheelnext.dev/summits/2025_03/slidedecks_and_resources/\n- can we fully evacuate from cmd.exe ? check what happens in cibuilds\n\nDirection: \n- Help Python Eco-system by favorising :\n  - speed: latest cPython jit/multiple-interpreter, and [AI-workload wanting free-threading ](https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#the-gil-makes-deploying-python-ai-models-difficult)\n  - standard: dataframe API protocol, WheelNext\n  - security: moving to lockfiles, signed wheels ... PEP-0751\n  - browser (and WebApp): Jupyterlite compatible packages\n - WinPython sustainability:\n  - make code simpler, smaller, AI-maintainable\n  - less x64 / DOS footprint (arm is coming)\n  - direction is an integrated or dowloadable set of standard signed wheels, a pylock.toml file\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/stonebig","@type":"Person","name":"stonebig"},"datePublished":"2025-04-16T10:14:40.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":15},"url":"https://github.com/1552/winpython/issues/1552"}