Taking over Pyo

[Alexandros Drymonitis]

With this message I want to let everyone know that Aaron, Sean and I have decided to take over Pyo, as it is obviously abandonware and we think it's too good to just die.

Two weeks ago I sent a message here addressing Olivier, to see if he replies. He didn't, so a week later I sent the same message in Pyo's GitHub conversations page and again got no reply.

We have now forked Pyo and it lives here https://github.com/pyo-org/pyo. We have tested it with Python3.14 on Linux and it works fine, but we do need Windows testers. We don't have wheels in PyPI yet, so anyone willing to test it should compile from sources.

Olivier had switched compiling from using the setup.py script, to `python3 -m build`, but the script still works fine (on Linux, at least, after Aaron refirbished it). If you want to compile Pyo with double precission, all you need to do (after installing dependencies) is `python3 setup.py --use-double`.

We still haven't created a documentation page, so you'll have to refer to the old one for compiling, https://belangeo.github.io/pyo/compiling.html. In there, Olivier writes: "Here is how you can compile pyo from sources on Linux and MacOS (if you are interested in the adventure of compiling pyo from sources on Windows, you can take a look at my personal notes in windows-10-64bit-build-routine.txt).". This is the page he refers to, https://github.com/belangeo/pyo/blob/master/scripts/win/windows-10-64bit-build-routine.txt.

Keeping Pyo alive has now become a collective effort, so your contribution is important. Windows users, please give some time to Pyo and try to run the latest with Python3.14 so we can finalize things. I'll be watching this thread and the group here, in case people have questions (that I can hopefully answer).

I'll keep everyone posted about how this is going.

All the best,
Alexandros

[Tiago Bortoletto Vaz]

Hello Alexandros and all involved,

Thanks for keeping pyo alive!

I'd like to be added to pyo-org as well. FWIW I'm the pyo/cecila/soundgrain
maintainer in Debian (and derivatives) and also the one hosting RadioPyo.

From time to time I might forward bugs reported in the Debian BTS to upstream
and who knows, perform the PRs myself.

(also had a chance of having Olivier as a teacher and supervisor, lots of
fun back then :-)

Bests,

--
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
https://tvaz.cc

On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 10:54:50PM -0700, Alexandros Drymonitis wrote:
> With this message I want to let everyone know that Aaron, Sean and I have
> decided to take over Pyo, as it is obviously abandonware and we think it's
> too good to just die.
> Two weeks ago I sent a message here addressing Olivier, to see if he
> replies. He didn't, so a week later I sent the same message in Pyo's GitHub
> conversations page and again got no reply.
>
> We have now forked Pyo and it lives here https://github.com/pyo-org/pyo. We
> have tested it with Python3.14 on Linux and it works fine, but we do need
> Windows testers. We don't have wheels in PyPI yet, so anyone willing to
> test it should compile from sources.
>
> Olivier had switched compiling from using the setup.py script, to `python3
> -m build`, but the script still works fine (on Linux, at least, after Aaron
> refirbished it). If you want to compile Pyo with double precission, all you
> need to do (after installing dependencies) is `python3 setup.py
> --use-double`.
>
> We still haven't created a documentation page, so you'll have to refer to
> the old one for compiling, https://belangeo.github.io/pyo/compiling.html.
> In there, Olivier writes: "Here is how you can compile pyo from sources on
> Linux and MacOS (if you are interested in the adventure of compiling pyo
> from sources on Windows, you can take a look at my personal notes in
> windows-10-64bit-build-routine.txt

> <https://github.com/belangeo/pyo/blob/master/scripts/win/windows-10-64bit-build-routine.txt>

> ).". This is the page he refers
> to, https://github.com/belangeo/pyo/blob/master/scripts/win/windows-10-64bit-build-routine.txt.
>
> Keeping Pyo alive has now become a collective effort, so your contribution
> is important. Windows users, please give some time to Pyo and try to run
> the latest with Python3.14 so we can finalize things. I'll be watching this
> thread and the group here, in case people have questions (that I can
> hopefully answer).
>
> I'll keep everyone posted about how this is going.
>
> All the best,
> Alexandros
>

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[Alexandros Drymonitis]

Hi Tiago,

It's nice to see the team growing! I just sent you an invitation.

Cheers

[Alexandros Drymonitis]

The core team of the new Pyo repository in the pyo-org GitHub organization now consists of five members, including Olivier! I think we're at a very good state where we can finalize Pyo-1.0.7 as stable, but we still need Windows testers. This message is addressing Windows users who want to help in keeping Pyo alive. We need at least one person to build Pyo-1.0.6 (the current source in https://github.com/pyo-org/pyo) for Windows so we can publish 1.0.7 in PyPI.

Of course, more people that want to become members of the development team are welcome. Just message me and I'll add you.

[barmin]

Hi everybody,

So happy to see that pyo is getting into motion again! Thanks to Alexandros, Sean and Aaron for the initiative, Tiago for joining in and of course Olivier for all the great work until now!

I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to give to this project, but I'm also interested in joining the team. My github username is amiguet,

Looking forward to see how things evolve from there!

Cheers,

Matthieu

Le 15.05.26 à 09:30, Alexandros Drymonitis a écrit :

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