[Python-Dev] Killing off bdist_dumb (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 17:03:40 -0500

In the commentary attached to bug #410541, I suggest removing the bdistdumb command, because no interesting platforms actually install from zip files.

Are there any platforms Python supports, such as Slackware, BeOS, AtheOS, or whatever, where the convention is to do binary installations from .zip files? Any objections to killing bdistdumb?

Aren't zipfiles used as el-cheapo installers on Windows? I've seen plenty of stuff that was distributed as a simple zipfile, with instructions "unpack ".

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)