make .pycharm_helpers available as a downloadable archive
.pycharm_helpers/ should be made available as a public .tar.gz download for all versions of PyCharm, as well as a dynamic URL for the latest stable version, going forward. This would simplify baking them into containers. And yes, I know about the Docker and Docker-Compose remote interpreter options but that won't work for us: we work with windows PyCharm installations running a remote interpreter on a container with sshd deployed on a linux host in the cloud. It works very well but the .pycharm_helpers we have baked into our images slowly become obsolete and require longer and longer upgrade times. The only solution we have now is to fire up a container, remove .pycharm_helpers, re-setup the remote interpreter so it will upload the latest helpers for us to bake into our docker images-- it can be pure agony when you're VPN'd into work: PyCharm blocks all work to update the .pycharm_helpers which can take 40+ minutes.
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Others have had problems before, with no response by Jetbrains. Maybe the forum isn't the right place for this?
https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/207354265-Pre-Install-PyCharm-Helper-
Hi,
this is related to the known issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-5688 from Pycharm issue tracker, please follow it for updates. See https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241135-How-to-follow-YouTrack-issues-and-receive-notifications if you are not familiar with YouTrack.
I found that you've also created https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-23958, thank you.