[Python-Dev] Why are useful tools omitted from the Win bin distro? (original) (raw)

Alex Martelli aleax@aleax.it
Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:30:08 +0200

Just helped some people on the Italian Python mailing list find some indispensable tool (Tools/i18n/pygettext.py, in this specific case) and they expressed astonishment that the tool isn't in the standard Windows binary distribution, which was all they had downloaded. This set me to wondering -- is there any reason why this and other tools &c should NOT be included in that binary? Could we add them in 2.2.2 and later releases?

Alex