Why does Python 3.12 only exist for MSYS2, but not for MinGW64 or UCRT64?

[Paebbels]

Description / Steps to reproduce the issue

MSYS2 provides Python for the shells MSYS2/MSYS, MSYS2/MinGW32, MSYS2/MinGW64, MSYS2/UCRT64, ..., but only MSYS2/MSYS installs Python 3.12.x, whereas MinGW64 or UCRT64 only provide 3.11.x.

Before 3.12, all shells provided the same Python version.

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Btw, a few days ago Python 3.13 was released.

Expected behavior

Provide latest Python 3.12 (or better: directly jump to 3.13 😄) for all shells.

Actual behavior

$ pacman -Ss python | grep "python 3.1"
clangarm64/mingw-w64-clang-aarch64-python 3.11.10-1
mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-python 3.11.10-1
mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-python 3.11.10-1 [Installiert]
ucrt64/mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-python 3.11.10-1 [Installiert]
clang32/mingw-w64-clang-i686-python 3.11.10-1
clang64/mingw-w64-clang-x86_64-python 3.11.10-1
msys/python 3.12.7-1 [Installiert]

Verification

• I have verified that my MSYS2 is up-to-date before submitting the report (see https://www.msys2.org/docs/updating/)

Windows Version

MINGW64_NT-10.0-22631

Are you willing to submit a PR?

No response

[Biswa96]

Why does Python 3.12 only exist for MSYS2, but not for MinGW64 or UCRT64?

It takes tremendous amount of effort to port python for mingw toolchain. There is a temporary mingw python 3.12 for testing https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-python3.12. It would not work with other programs because those requires to be rebuilt.

The source code for mingw python can be found in this repository https://github.com/msys2-contrib/cpython-mingw