[Python-Dev] Re: Stability and change (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:59:56 -0400

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:

>> If churning out a binary installer *suitable for a development >> branch* can be reduced to a few minutes, fine. If not ... aahz> Seems to me that for dev releases, there's no need for a "Windows aahz> installer". A zip file that contains the necessary install tree aahz> ought to be sufficient. I think the contention was implicitly that many people who might be able to help test development releases couldn't because they lack the necessary tools to build from source.

Sorry, I guess I'm still too Windows-centric in assuming that "install tree" would be generally understood as containing executables.

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