This is the only forum where there has been the tiniest of information (from kmx) in nearly 8 months. win32-vanilla has had nothing in this time despite mails asking about it.
I can build my own but that's not a solution for a supportable rollout. Activestate isn't an option for various reasons. It is rather tedious to have to justify everything like this under the assumption that I haven't thought about these options in the last 8 months. I don't need a reliable plan, it's just very unusual for a very active and very widely used project to go utterly dormant with no news at all. Yes, I can switch to another distribution but it would be nice to know first if this one is delayed or dead. That's not much to ask of even a free distribution in 8 months.