Clarification: issue #669 vs Windows host setup (PyICU wheel)

[Simone Nardi]

Hi,
I have read issue #669 carefully. (https://github.com/GrandComicsDatabase/gcd-django/issues/669)

However, I would like to clarify that the blocker I am encountering is slightly different.

Issue #669 describes PyICU failing to build inside Docker, due to a version mismatch between ICU (76.x) and PyICU (which supports up to ICU 74), along with related C++ toolchain constraints.

In my case, I am following the documented Windows host workflow, with Django running on the host and Docker used only for DB/cache. The blocker is that the setup explicitly requires the precompiled wheel:

PyICU-2.4.3-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl

from the referenced Gohlke source, which no longer appears to be available. As a result, pip falls back to a source build, which fails — and resolving this would require changing versions or the toolchain, which I am intentionally not doing.

The question is therefore simply this:

• Is there an official alternative source for the required PyICU 2.4.3 wheel on Windows?

• Or should the Windows host setup be considered no longer supported under the current documented constraints?

For now, I am keeping the setup in a blocked state, as proceeding would require undocumented changes.

Simone

[Jochen G.]

The getting started on windows is last updated in Feb. 2023. Any
versions given likely can and should be updated.

Am 19.12.25 um 18:07 schrieb Simone Nardi:

> Hi,
> I have read issue #669 carefully. (https://github.com/

> GrandComicsDatabase/gcd-django/issues/669 <https://github.com/
> GrandComicsDatabase/gcd-django/issues/669>)

>
> However, I would like to clarify that the blocker I am encountering is
> slightly different.
>

> Issue #669 describes PyICU failing to build *inside Docker*, due to a

> version mismatch between ICU (76.x) and PyICU (which supports up to ICU
> 74), along with related C++ toolchain constraints.
>

> In my case, I am following the documented *Windows host workflow*, with

> Django running on the host and Docker used only for DB/cache. The
> blocker is that the setup explicitly requires the precompiled wheel:
>
> PyICU-2.4.3-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl
>
> from the referenced Gohlke source, which no longer appears to be
> available. As a result, pip falls back to a source build, which fails —
> and resolving this would require changing versions or the toolchain,
> which I am intentionally not doing.
>
> The question is therefore simply this:
>

> *
>
> Is there an *official alternative source* for the required PyICU
> 2.4.3 wheel on Windows?
>
> *
>
> Or should the Windows host setup be considered *no longer supported*

> under the current documented constraints?
>
> For now, I am keeping the setup in a blocked state, as proceeding would
> require undocumented changes.
>
> Simone
>

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