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

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:02:26 -0400

[Aahz]

Ah. Okay, is shipping a zip of the build tree (plus a couple of MSVCRT libraries) sufficient to run Python?

Sufficient for whom? Not for the typical Windows user. It's sufficient for a typical developer, but if they want a build tree they can build Python themself from CVS.

Would that be any less effort?

If developers built their own Python from CVS, that would certainly be less effort for me . I'll note that some small number of people have said they could be more help on Windows if we had a makefile for a different Windows compiler (and I guess they must mean "not Cygwin", else it's already there, thanks to Jason Tishler).