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

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:19:34 -0400

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Tim Peters wrote:

Seems to me that for dev releases, there's no need for a "Windows installer". A zip file that contains the necessary install tree ought to be sufficient. The Windows install tree is a radical rearrangement of the Windows build tree: building an installer and running it is the fastest way to build an install tree. Building a zip file on top of that would actually take more time (BTW, the Windows installer .exe is a kind of standard zip file: you can open it directly with WinZip and browse its contents).

Ah. Okay, is shipping a zip of the build tree (plus a couple of MSVCRT libraries) sufficient to run Python? Would that be any less effort?

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